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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
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So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
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One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
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His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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