Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness (2009)

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She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

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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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