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.
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…
- Alice Munro
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.
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 …
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. - Alice Munro
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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.
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.
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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