Alice Munro quotes - page 2

It's just life. You can't beat life. (Alice Munro)
Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person. View quote
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. View quote
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry? View quote
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. View quote
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It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. View quote
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She would live now, not read. View quote
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class. View quote
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People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. View quote
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There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever. View quote
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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. (Alice Munro)
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. View quote
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I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. View quote
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life. View quote
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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. View quote
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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. View quote
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People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life. View quote
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people. View quote
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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. (Alice Munro)
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. View quote
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. View quote
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. View quote
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People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong. View quote
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