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.
People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life. - Alice Munro
People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
- Alice Munro
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. - Alice Munro
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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 i… - Alice Munro
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 i…
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major … - Alice Munro
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major …
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. - Alice Munro
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind. - Alice Munro
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writi… - Alice Munro
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writi…
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where… - Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where…
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to … - Alice Munro
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to …
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