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Today is Alice Munro appreciation day. These sentences. These sentences that stop you in your tracks. These sentences that break you, they just make you mull over the exacting nature of emotion, of what it evokes in you, and how it makes you see the world. Alice Munro, a thread.
âYou cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.â
âWhy is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?â
âLife would be grand if it weren't for the people.â
âItâs just life. You canât beat life.â
"That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."
âLove dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead.â
âpeople who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter oneâ
âMy need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.â
âWe 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.â
âAlways remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind,' her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. 'When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.â
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