QUOTES by Alice Munro
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"She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort."
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"Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently."
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"Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places"
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"Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."
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"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."
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"The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair."
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"I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same."
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"There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell such people things, it is too disruptive."
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"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."
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"There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done."
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"Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class."
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"He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into."
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"What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given."
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"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."
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"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."
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"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"."
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"There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever."
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"Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you."
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"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."
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"People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum."
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"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
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"Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly."
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"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."
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"Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?"
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"Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later."
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"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."
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"Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."
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"Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."
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