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Alice Munro Quotes

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class Picture Quote #1

People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one Picture Quote #1

My head was a magpie’s nest lined with such bright scraps of information Picture Quote #1

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust Picture Quote #1

A story... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you Picture Quote #1

I want my stories to move people... to feel some kind of reward from the writing Picture Quote #1

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Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s a kind of tension that if I’m getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don’t feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that’s explosive, and I want everything gathered into that Picture Quote #1

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn’t fail Picture Quote #1

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it. I believe this Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities Picture Quote #1

Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn’t we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days? Picture Quote #1

I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn’t believe it anymore Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn’t have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks Picture Quote #1

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings Picture Quote #1

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For we did makeup. But we didn’t forgive each other. And we didn’t take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief Picture Quote #1

Never underestimate the meanness in people’s souls... Even when they’re being kind... especially when they’re being kind Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? Picture Quote #1

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly Picture Quote #1

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal Picture Quote #1

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home Picture Quote #1

I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake Picture Quote #1

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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class (Alice Munro Quotes) People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one (Alice Munro Quotes) My head was a magpie’s nest lined with such bright scraps of information (Alice Munro Quotes) The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust (Alice Munro Quotes) A story... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you (Alice Munro Quotes) I want my stories to move people... to feel some kind of reward from the writing (Alice Munro Quotes) Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) There’s a kind of tension that if I’m getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don’t feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that’s explosive, and I want everything gathered into that (Alice Munro Quotes) The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn’t fail (Alice Munro Quotes) There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it. I believe this (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities (Alice Munro Quotes) Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn’t we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days? (Alice Munro Quotes) I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn’t believe it anymore (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn’t have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks (Alice Munro Quotes) That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings (Alice Munro Quotes) Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 Quotes) For we did makeup. But we didn’t forgive each other. And we didn’t take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief (Alice Munro Quotes) Never underestimate the meanness in people’s souls... Even when they’re being kind... especially when they’re being kind (Alice Munro Quotes) 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 (Alice Munro Quotes) Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? (Alice Munro Quotes) Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly (Alice Munro Quotes) The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal (Alice Munro Quotes) The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home (Alice Munro Quotes) I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake (Alice Munro Quotes)

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