Alice Munro Quotes

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• The constant happiness is curiosity.

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  Inspirational Life, Epic, Curiosity

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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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  Men, Rooms, Remember

  "Too Much Happiness". Book by Alice Munro, 2009.

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• One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

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  Hate, White, Hatred

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.362, Vintage

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

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  House, Stories, World

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.

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  Reading, House, Stories

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• You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

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  Real, Parent, Shame

  "Open Secrets". Book by Alice Munro, 1994.

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• Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

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  Writing, Enjoy, Hard

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• Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

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  Memories, People, Different

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 04, 2010

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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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  Seductive, Romance, Despair

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

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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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  Lightning, Doe, Next

  Alice Munro (2015). “Lives of Girls and Women”, p.124, Random House

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• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

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  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

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• Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

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  People, Soul, Be Kind

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jun 25, 2010

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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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  Happened

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 04, 2014

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• Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

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  Taken, People, Treasure

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 27, 2011

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• people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

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  Believe, People, Miracle

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.46, Vintage

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• I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

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  Art, People, Important

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

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  People, Happens

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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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  Country, Phones, House

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.359, Vintage

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• People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

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  Notebook, Reading, Knowing

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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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  People, Achievement, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 10, 2015

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

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  Children, Years, Different

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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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  World, Wells, Remove

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.232, Vintage

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• I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

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  Writing, Bridges, Play

  "Go ask Alise". Interview with Newyorker, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2001.

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

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  Kissing, Fearless, Subtle

  Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House

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• A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

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  Stories, Shelter, Sturdy

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.17, Vintage

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