--- title: "2 Alice Munro Quotes By How to Dress Well" description: "2 Alice Munro quotes by How to Dress Well. Plus more from How to Dress Well and more Alice Munro sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/how-to-dress-well-19520_aspects-of-life_i-think-what-s-interesting-about-alice-m_1532076.jpg" --- > [I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. Nevertheless, people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-think-what-s-interesting-about-alice-munro-too-is-the-extreme/) How to Dress Well [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/how-to-dress-well-19520_aspects-of-life_i-think-what-s-interesting-about-alice-m_1532076.jpg) > [That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where she decides to take an extreme risk. It's always after an extreme risk where life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/that-s-another-thing-in-alice-munro-it-s-always-like-some-middle-aged/) How to Dress Well [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/628/how-to-dress-well-19520_cheat_that-s-another-thing-in-alice-munro-it-s_3105148.jpg) ## More by How to Dress Well > [Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/sometimes-i-ll-go-out-to-say-hi-to-people-and-i-m-just-not-ready-for/) How to Dress Well > [Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/traveling-is-amazing-you-meet-so-many-great-positive-people-you-get/) How to Dress Well > [I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-m-cool-with-being-the-sad-guy-but-i-don-t-want-to-be-the-guy-who/) How to Dress Well > ["Everything must change, everything must stay the same." Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/everything-must-change-everything-must-stay-the-same-those-are-good/) How to Dress Well > [I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-do-think-that-we-re-pretty-future-obsessed-right-now-and-i-think/) How to Dress Well > [Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/our-present-era-to-my-mind-is-characterized-by-a-profound-forgetting/) How to Dress Well > [The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/the-interesting-thing-about-doing-press-is-that-i-learn-what-the/) How to Dress Well > [Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/every-time-i-think-that-i-ve-pierced-through-the-simulation-every/) How to Dress Well > [I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-believe-and-this-is-something-i-also-learned-from-alice-munro-that/) How to Dress Well > [I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we always get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-don-t-have-one-thing-i-go-back-to-but-we-listen-to-a-lot-of-music/) How to Dress Well > [I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-have-this-problem-where-i-get-incredibly-miserably-nervous-every/) How to Dress Well > [George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/george-saunders-is-outside-of-chicago-too-i-ve-met-him-a-few-times/) How to Dress Well > [I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic of basic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-ve-come-to-realize-that-most-of-my-intellectual-postures-and-a-lot/) How to Dress Well > [I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography. You end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/i-feel-like-real-thoughts-and-emotions-involve-the-whole-being-and/) How to Dress Well > [Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/how-to-dress-well/fiction-can-produce-truth-and-truth-can-be-false-what-does-it-mean-to/) How to Dress Well ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alice-munro/how-to-dress-well/#itemlist", "name": "2 Alice Munro Quotes By How to Dress Well", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. 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