"I have never kept diaries. I just remember……" — Alice Munro
"I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people."
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105 Quotes by Alice Munro
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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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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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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost…
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We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error…
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean…
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up…
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the…
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If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
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Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always…
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It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own…
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You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
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