"People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It……" — Alice Munro
"People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life."
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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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- They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. — George R. R. Martin