"Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with……" — Alice Munro
"Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks."
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Alice Munro
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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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More Acquaintance Quotes
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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