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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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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.
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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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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.
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She would live now, not read.
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It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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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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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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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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People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
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