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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

There's ten thousand wyes a hen can get into a gairden, but only the wan wye she can get oot, and it's gey ill for her to find it. — Neil 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

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

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. — Hector Hugh 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

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 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

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. — Hector Hugh Munro

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

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

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, overlaid
it might as well be dead. — 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

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

He says the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell? — 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

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain. — Pete Munro

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

To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin. — 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

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. — 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

I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes. — Alice Munro

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

this is not a story, only life. — 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

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

Women and elephants never forget an injury. — Hector Hugh Munro

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

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride ... — Pete Munro

Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity. — Alice Munro

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. — Alice Munro

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions. — Hector Hugh Munro

Never in her life had this silly feeling of being enhanced by what she had put on herself. — 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

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

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart. — Hector Hugh Munro

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

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. — Nick Cave

As they say in Hollywood, that's a wrap! And the oscar goes to Tudor North and Tash Munro for an outstanding debut performance in a sex scene! — Tillie Cole

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. — 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

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

She would live now, not read. — 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

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

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee. — Alice Munro

She now belonged to two Doms. She was theirs for the taking, but also for the giving — Lila Munro

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

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

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

And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly — Munro Leaf

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

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. — Hector Hugh Munro

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

I hate babies. They're so human. — Hector Hugh 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

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

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

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

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

They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's. — Alice Munro

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. — Hector Hugh Munro