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title: "1 World Inner Quotes By Alice Munro"
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> [“It seems so ridiculous to me,' he said, 'that a person should be expected to lock themselves into a suit of clothes. I mean like the suit of clothes of an engineer or a doctor or a geologist and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/it-seems-so-ridiculous-to-me-he-said-that-a-person-should-be-expected/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

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## More by Alice Munro

> [William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/william-maxwell-s-my-favorite-north-american-writer-i-think-and-an/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/not-very-long-ago-i-was-driving-with-my-husband-on-the-back-roads-of/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/her-silent-singing-wrapped-around-the-story-she-was-telling-herself/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/something-happened-here-in-your-life-there-are-a-few-places-or-maybe/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/my-head-was-a-magpie-s-nest-lined-with-such-bright-scraps-of/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-thing-is-to-be-happy-no-matter-what-just-try-that-you-can-it-gets/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/what-she-wants-to-do-if-she-can-get-the-time-to-do-it-is-not-so-much/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/children-katy-s-age-had-no-problem-with-monotony-in-fact-they/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/this-is-what-happens-you-put-it-away-for-a-little-while-and-now-and/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/she-sits-in-her-usual-ample-armchair-with-piles-of-books-and-unopened/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-images-the-language-of-pornography-and-romance-are-alike/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-was-a-grade-b-housewife-maybe-a-b-minus-but-when-i-got-time-to/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [She would live now, not read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/she-would-live-now-not-read/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/you-would-think-as-you-get-older-your-mind-would-fill-up-with-what/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted \[to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/peoples-lives-in-jubilee-as-elsewhere-were-dull-simple-amazing/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

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