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Inspirational Quotes by Alice Munro
- A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
- That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
- Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
- The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
- People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
- Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
- In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I…
- Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
- He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
- There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
- 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.
- And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
- Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have…
- Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
- He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
- It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
- She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
- She would live now, not read.
- Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
- You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
- 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 Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento