Alice Munro Short Quotes

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Any woman who tells the truth about herself is a feminist.

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

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People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.

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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

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

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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

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

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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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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

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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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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

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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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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

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Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

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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.

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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

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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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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

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I can get a kind of tension when I'm writing a short story, like I'm pulling on a rope and know where the rope is attached.

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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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Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

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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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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

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