"Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought,……" — Alice Munro

"Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing."

— Alice Munro

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105 Quotes by Alice Munro

Alice Munro has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth,…
A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for…
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would…
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an…
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact…
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you…

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