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Alice Munro has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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, but to…
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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 a while,…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…
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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 it be…
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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 only child…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…
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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 played around…
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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not…
— George C. Marshall
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In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They…
— Yukio Mishima
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Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
— Thomas Browne
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent…
— Will Rogers
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You…
— Alice Munro
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One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words…
— Margaret Atwood
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
— Emile Zola
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If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we…
— Stephenie Meyer
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When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing…
— Dan Wells
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The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
— Dan Wells
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was…
— Zach Roerig
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