Alice Munro Quotes - Page 4

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• He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

  Alice Munro

  Sparks, Wanted

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• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

  Alice Munro

  Flower, Home, Eye

  Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage

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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.

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  People, Forever, Mind

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• 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

  Coffee, Men, Thinking

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• 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.

  Alice Munro

  Laughter, Compassion, Hilarity

  Alice Munro (2007). “Away from Her: Stories”

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• It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

  Alice Munro

  Wind, Land, Mind

  Alice Munro (1990). “Friend of my youth: stories”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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.

  Alice Munro

  Way, Sometimes, Straightforward

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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.

  Alice Munro

  Horse, Loss, Rising

  Alice Munro (2013). “The Love Of A Good Woman”, Random House

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• I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

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  Self, People, Diaries

  "On "Dear Life": An Interview with Alice Munro". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2012.

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

  Alice Munro

  Fall, Traps, Persons

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.36, Random House

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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.

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  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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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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  Believe, People, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Aug 28, 2016

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

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  Desire, Driven, Gentle

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.286, Vintage

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• I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, One Day, Would Be

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• I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.

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  Past, Thinking, Years

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 16, 2010

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• I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

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  Country, Ironic, Stories

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 26, 2010

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• I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

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  Art, Book, Reading

  Alice Munro (1974). “Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories”, Plume

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• I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

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  Care, Might, Saws

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.354, Vintage

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• If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

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  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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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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  Book, Reading, Dust

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.587, Vintage

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

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  Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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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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  Writing, Years, Practice

  "Canada's Alice Munro, 'master' of short stories, wins Nobel Prize in literature" By Joe Sterling, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

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• I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

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  Romance, Attention, Notion

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

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  People, World, Strange

  Alice Munro (2015). “Lives of Girls and Women”, p.37, Random House

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

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  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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