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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.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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She would live now, not read.
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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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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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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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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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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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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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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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