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Alice Munro Quotes

“That isn't an expression that means anything to me, really. Make a fool of yourself. How can anybody do that? How can you make a fool? Show the fool, yes, expose the fool, but isn't the fool just yourself, isn't it there all the time? Show yourself. What else can you do?”

Individuality Originality Foolishness Embarrassment Interiority Alice Munro

Book:Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

Source: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

“It occurred to him, and had occurred to him before, that there was after all something to be said for dealing with things the way most people of his age seemed to do. It was sensible perhaps to stop noticing, to believe that this was still the same world they were living in, with some dreadful but curable aberrations, never to understand how the whole arrangement had altered.”

Age Change Progress Ignorance Maturity Ageing Alice Munro

Book:Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

Source: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

“Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.”

Writing Stories Reading Writers On Writing Alice Munro

Author:Jincy Willett

“The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.”

Life Runaway Alice Munro Trespasses

Book:Runaway: Stories

Source: Runaway: Stories

“The last days of May are among the longest of the year, and in spite of the ferry-dock lights and the lights of the cars streaming into the belly of the boat, she could see some glow in the western sky and against it the black mound of an island.”

Short Stories Alice Munro

Book:What is Remembered

Source: What is Remembered

“An op-ed in the Boston Globe, remarking on near-corpses who keep on doing what they've always done, compared me to Mick Jagger. Never before had I been so honored. The columnist mentioned others: Keith Richards, Alice Munro, and William Trevor, who was born the year I was. At seventy, Jagger is a juvenile among us eighty-five-year-olds—but his face as he jumps and gyrates resembles something retrieved from a bog.”

Aging Old Age Celebrities Seniors Senior Citizens Keith Richards Mick Jagger Alice Munro William Trevor

Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty