"Life would be grand if it weren't for…" — Alice Munro
"Life would be grand if it weren't for the 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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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 Grand Quotes
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I have no grand scheme.
— Dave Attell
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Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like…
— Sebastian Bach
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not…
— William Blake
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
— Nellie Bly
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I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
— John Bolton
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
— Bono
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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