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Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
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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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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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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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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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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Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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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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I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.
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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
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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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