"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the……" — Alice Munro
"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."
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105 Quotes by Alice Munro
Alice Munro has 105 quotes on this site.
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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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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost…
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More Boat Quotes
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
— Arthur Ashe
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
— George Matthew Adams
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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing…
— Travis Barker
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
— Bernard Baruch
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
— Elayne Boosler
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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no…
— Jeff Bridges
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
— Warren Buffett
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die…
— Coco Chanel
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for…
— Harlan Coben
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