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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

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 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 stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. — Alice Munro

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

But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place? — Alice Munro

It's just life. You can't beat life. — 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

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. — 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

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people. — Alice Munro

They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable. — 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

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

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