"Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even……" — Alice Munro
"Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind."
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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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