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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
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
— Hector Hugh Munro
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
— Alice Munro
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
— Hector Hugh Munro
No paradise is ever without its Serpent, nor any Eden its exiles.
— Jennifer Munro
He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?It was too polite, I said. — Alice Munro
Munro stood in the doorway, watching the two faeries peer into his fridge as thought it was the strangest thing they'd ever seen.
— India Drummond
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
— Hector Hugh 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
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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
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
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
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
She would live now, not read.
— Alice Munro
this is not a story, only life.
— Alice Munro
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
— Alice Munro
Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity.
— Alice Munro
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
— Hector Hugh Munro
I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worldsthis was a comfort to me. — Alice Munro
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
— Burt Munro
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
— Hector Hugh 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
Never in her life had this silly feeling of being enhanced by what she had put on herself.
— Alice Munro
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
— Hector Hugh 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
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 Life of Sir Thomas Munro, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831), vol. ii, p. 175.
— William Sleeman
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
— Alice Munro
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
— 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
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
— Hector Hugh Munro
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
— Hector Hugh Munro
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
— Hector Hugh Munro
And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly
— Munro Leaf
I hate babies. They're so human.
— Hector Hugh Munro
They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
— Alice Munro
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Her father was outraged. Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?
— Alice Munro
