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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but…
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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a…
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The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a…
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the…
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male…
— Ann Beattie
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,…
— Nell Freudenberger
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I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction…
— Emily Perkins
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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and…
— Cathleen Schine
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.
— Clark Blaise
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