Quotes by Alice Munro

Alice Munro

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

Shelter

Stories

Sturdy

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.

Men

Remember

Rooms

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

Coffee

Men

Thinking

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

Busy

Warm

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

People

Writing

As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.

Giving Up

Passion

Strong

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

Grief

Letting Go

Minutes

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

Attractive

Class

Elegance

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

Awkward

Children

Only Child

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

Country

House

Phones

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Age

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Art

Attractive

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Beats

Believe

Blessing

Blow

Book

Boys

Bridges

Busy

Care

Children

Class

Coffee

Compassion

Country

Curiosity

Doe

Dream

Dust

Eggs

Elegance

Epic

Everything Happens For A Reason

Eye

Failing

Fall

Fearless

Fiction

Finding Yourself

Forever

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Giving Up

Grief

Growing

Happens

Hard

Hatred

Hilarity

Home

House

I've Learned

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Important

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Quotes by Alice Munro

Alice Munro

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

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.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

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.

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

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

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

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

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