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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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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
— Virginia Woolf
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Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention…
— Robert Crippen
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a…
— Patrick Dempsey
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Being Dead means very light housekeeping
— Unknown Author
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,…
— Samuel Beckett
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on…
— Edward Bernays
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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil…
— Martin Luther
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I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,…
— Judith Krantz
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But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all…
— Gladys Taber
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This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
— Norm Dicks
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
— Henry David Thoreau
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