QUOTES by Alice Munro
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"Her hair had been long and wavy and brown then, natural in curl and color, as he liked it, and her face bashful and soft -- a reflection less of the way she was than of the way he wanted to see her."
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"Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity."
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"I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me."
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"All these jobs that seemed incidental and almost playful, on the borders of my real life, were going to move front and center."
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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." [A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998]"
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"What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee."
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"He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want? It was too polite, I said."
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"Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?"
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"He says the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?"
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"She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store..."
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"Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?"
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"He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee."
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"She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about."
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"In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places."
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"The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity."
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"You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled."
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"It is all about a girl who is more interested in politics than in love... the Russian censors will not let it be published and the world outside will not want it because it is so Russian."
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"He takes up too much room, on the divan and in one's mind. It is simply impossible for me, in his presence, think of anything but him."
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"Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry."
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"What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever."
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"Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle— And hoping It will reach Japan."
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"You would think that Rosemary would understand that. She should have understood what such a choice said - that Karin was not to be made happy, amends were not possible, forgiveness was out of the question."
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"There were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away."
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"He could no more describe the feeling he got from her than you can describe a smell. It's like the scorch of electricity. It's like burnt kernels of wheat. No, it's like a bitter orange. I give up."
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"A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape."
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"He seemed happy. She thought that she seldom concerned herself about Laurence’s being happy. She wanted him to be in a good mood, so that everything would go smoothly, but that was not the same thing."
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"So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses."
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"Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire."
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"The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust."
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"None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade."
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"One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them."
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"....Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to…"
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"Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead."
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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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"Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?"
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"And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence. 'If I loved you I would have written differently."
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"It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust."
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