"There were people whom you positively ached to……" — Alice Munro
"There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever."
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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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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands…
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps…
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When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was…
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I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her…
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My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in…
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I…
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Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility…
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He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to…
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The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I…
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What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never…
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