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And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence.'If I loved you I would have written differently. — Alice Munro
Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?
— Alice Munro
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'
— Hillary Clinton
My mother had a habit of hanging onto - even treasuring - the foibles of my distant infantile state.
— Alice Munro
Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
— Alice Munro
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls ... Even when they're being kind ... especially when they're being kind.
— Alice Munro
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
— Alice Munro
He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?It was too polite, I said. — Alice Munro
One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.
— Alice Munro
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
— Alice Munro
The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame.
— Alice Munro
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
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
Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaidit might as well be dead. — Alice Munro
A million dollars in those days was a million dollars.
— Alice Munro
But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?
— Alice Munro
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
— Alice Munro
There were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away.
— Alice Munro
It's just life. You can't beat life.
— Alice Munro
The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.
— Alice Munro
None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.
— Alice Munro
Love is not for the undepilated.
— Alice Munro
To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin.
— Alice Munro
All these jobs that seemed incidental and almost playful, on the borders of my real life, were going to move front and center.
— Alice Munro
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
— Mariella Frostrup
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
— Alice Munro
Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
— Alice Munro
And there was still a lot of soft snow in the bush. We
— Alice Munro
They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable.
— Alice Munro
One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
— Alice Munro
I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.
— Alice Munro
The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity.
— Alice Munro
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
— Alice Munro
There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
— Alice Munro
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
The work of poetry that it seemed she had been doing in her head for most of her life.
— Alice Munro
A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape.
— Alice Munro
It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation
— Alice Munro
Shakespeare should have prepared her.
— Alice Munro
Odd choices were simply easier for men, most of whom would find women glad to marry them. Not so the other way around.
— Alice Munro
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
— Alice Munro
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
— Alice Munro
He said Catholics probably had an advantage, you could hedge your bets right until you were dying.
— Alice Munro
And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
— Alice Munro
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
— Alice Munro
The constant happiness is curiosity.
— Alice Munro
Maybe the man in the moon will walk in here and fall in love with me and then I'll be all set!
— Alice Munro
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
— Alice Munro
What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.
— Alice Munro
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
— Alice Munro
They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
— Alice Munro
She would live now, not read.
— Alice Munro
Never in her life had this silly feeling of being enhanced by what she had put on herself.
— Alice Munro
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
— Alice Munro
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we dowe do it all the time. — Alice Munro
I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worldsthis was a comfort to me. — Alice Munro
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity.
— Alice Munro
this is not a story, only life.
— Alice Munro
They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's.
— Alice Munro
