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


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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

Alice Munro


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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

Alice Munro


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Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places

Alice Munro


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None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.

Alice Munro


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The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

Alice Munro


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She would live now, not read.

Alice Munro


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

Alice Munro


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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.

Alice Munro


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Things have changed, of course. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imaginary. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be.
But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

Alice Munro


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