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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
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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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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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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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Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
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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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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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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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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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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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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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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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