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Thought Quotes by Alice Munro
- For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
- It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because…
- Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
- Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]…
- 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…
- She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb…
- Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought…
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