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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Alice Munro

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

Alice Munro

People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one.

Alice Munro

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.

Alice Munro

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.

Alice Munro

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.

Alice Munro

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

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Born: July 10, 1931

Died: May 13, 2024 (aged 92)

Bio: Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.

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