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Alice Munro Quotes: "The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.




Alice Munro Quotes: "I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel."

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.



Alice Munro Quotes: "The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming."

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.




Alice Munro Quotes: "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."

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.



Alice Munro Quotes: "We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time."

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.



Alice Munro Quotes: "My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information."

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.




Alice Munro Quotes: "Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly."

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Life would be grand if it weren't for the people."

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind."

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets."

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.




Alice Munro Quotes: "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 their anecdotes were about."

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 their anecdotes were about.



Alice Munro Quotes: "The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail."

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.



Alice Munro Quotes: "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 it taken from you."

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 it taken from you.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.



Alice Munro Quotes: "It’s just life. You can’t beat life."

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.



Alice Munro Quotes: "The constant happiness is curiosity."

The constant happiness is curiosity.



Alice Munro Quotes: "A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you."

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later."

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.



Alice Munro Quotes: "There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done."

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.



Alice Munro Quotes: "people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one"

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one



Alice Munro Quotes: "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."

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.



Alice Munro Quotes: "People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life."

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?"

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?



Alice Munro Quotes: "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 do this is not very straightforward."

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 do this is not very straightforward.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing."

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem."

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it."

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?"

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?



Alice Munro Quotes: "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 was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.



Alice Munro Quotes: "She would live now, not read."

She would live now, not read.



Alice Munro Quotes: "People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum."

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.



Alice Munro Quotes: "That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class."

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.



Alice Munro Quotes: "For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel."

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.



Alice Munro Quotes: "It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust."

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.



Alice Munro Quotes: "You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.



Alice Munro Quotes: "He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life."

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.



Alice Munro Quotes: "I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same."

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.



Alice Munro Quotes: "He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into."

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently."

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.



Alice Munro Quotes: "Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are."

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.