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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

Sometimes that's just the way it is. You never really know until you try something on. The thing is," she said, with a new, more moderate conviction — 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

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true. — Alice Munro

Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry. — Alice Munro

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

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes

He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?
It was too polite, I said. — Alice Munro

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

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — 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, overlaid
it might as well be dead. — Alice Munro

When you died, of course, these wrong opinions were all there was left — 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

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

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

A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks — 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

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

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. — Alice Munro

My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache. — 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

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. — Alice Munro

The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity. — Alice Munro

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

Chronic means that it will be permanent but perhaps not constant. — Alice Munro

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail. — 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

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

Men. What they do. It's so sick and stupid. You can't believe it. — 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

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person. — Alice Munro

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. — Alice Munro

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. — 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

Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle
And hoping
It will reach Japan. — Alice Munro

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

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb. — 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

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize. — Alice Munro

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

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. — Alice Munro

He takes up too much room, on the divan and in one's mind. It is simply impossible for me, in his presence, think of anything but him. — Alice Munro

People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life. — Alice Munro

Time had been filled, reliably, agreeably, they had not been left adrift, and for this they were truly embarrassingly grateful. — Alice Munro

They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy — Alice Munro

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. — Alice Munro

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. — 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 do
we do it all the time. — Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life. — Alice Munro

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

Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both — Alice Munro

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds
this was a comfort to me. — Alice Munro

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. — 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

Hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone. — 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

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off? — Alice Munro

The dream was in fact a lot like the Vancouver weather - a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness, a weight that shifted round the heart. — Alice Munro

People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one — Alice Munro

Her father was outraged. Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself? — Alice Munro

Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason? — Alice Munro