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Other Quotes by Alice Munro
- A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and…
- Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
- Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
- Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
- For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw…
- 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.
- 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…
- As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous…
- There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
- I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say,…
More Other Quotes
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour