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Alice Munro quotes

Canadian Writer July 10, 1931

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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Alice Munro
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. Alice Munro
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is..."
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even..."
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. 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
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days? Alice Munro
I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that..."
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves..."
Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? Alice Munro
I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "She would live now, not read."
She would live now, not read. Alice Munro
The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that. Alice Munro
Alice Munro quote: "Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?"
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry? Alice Munro

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