« All All Quotes · Alice Munro's Page
All Quotes by Alice Munro
- You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
- I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there…
- People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going…
- When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll…
- And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down…
- I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question…
- What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and…
- In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
- His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had…
- As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his…
- The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in…
- She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that…
- We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
- They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle