Alice Munro Quotes - Page 2

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• Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, People, Anecdotes

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 17, 2011

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• I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

  Alice Munro

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Long, Fiction

  "A Conversation with Alice Munro". Interview, knopfdoubleday.com.

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• It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

  Alice Munro

  Beats

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

  Alice Munro

  Kissing, Fearless, Subtle

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

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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.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Bridges, Play

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

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• The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

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  Mean, Simple, Chaos

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jul 07, 2011

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• Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

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  Lying, People, Able

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jun 30, 2010

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• We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Never Forgive

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013

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• Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.

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  Mother, White, Hatred

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

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

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  Nests, Information, Magpies

  Alice Munro (2010). “Too Much Happiness”, p.174, Random House

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• Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

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  Class, Elegance, Attractive

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.180, Vintage

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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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• It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jul 09, 2011

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• Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

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  Inspiring, Dream, Good Life

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.252, Vintage

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• Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

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  Broken Heart, People, Lovers

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.91, Vintage

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• And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

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  Busy, Warm

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

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• Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

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  Perfect, Poet, Perfect Things

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.253, Random House

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• In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been.

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  Dream, Simple, Tunnels

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

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• I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

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  Moving, Writing, People

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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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• Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

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  Peace, Kindness, Moments

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jan 11, 2011

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• She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

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  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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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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  Horse, Loss, Rising

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

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• Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." In the beginning I used to say, well, of course I'm a feminist. But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not. I think I'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. That is really the basis of feminism.

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  Mean, Writing, Men

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• What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

  Alice Munro

  Past, Looks, Want

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Feb 12, 2017

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