"A story ... has a sturdy sense of……" — Alice Munro
"A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you."
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105 Quotes by Alice Munro
Alice Munro has 105 quotes on this site.
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth,…
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would…
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact…
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you…
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More Beguile Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.
— William Shakespeare
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who…
— Clarence Darrow
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
— William Shakespeare
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care,…
— Washington Irving
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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
— William Shakespeare
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
— Clarence Darrow
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God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful…
— Martin Prechtel
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Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's…
— Hesiod
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