"It's certainly true that when I was young,……" — Alice Munro
"It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in."
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Alice Munro
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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 Actually Living Quotes
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living…
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Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to…
— Wayne Coyne
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I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.
— Edward Furlong
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There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.
— Hal Elrod
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually…
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually…
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The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying…
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People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture…
— Michael Crichton
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Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty…
— Jon Krakauer
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to…
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