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61 " My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. "
― Alice Munro , Too Much Happiness: Stories
62 " She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever. "
― Alice Munro , Runaway: Stories
63 " You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. "
64 " What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it". "
65 " Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry? "
― Alice Munro , Dear Life
66 " It’s just life. You can’t beat life. "
― Alice Munro , Away from Her
67 " And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. "
― Alice Munro , Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
68 " Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class. "
― Alice Munro , The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
69 " 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. "
― Alice Munro , Vintage Munro
70 " There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done. "
― Alice Munro , The Love of a Good Woman
71 " The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. "
― Alice Munro , The Moons of Jupiter
72 " What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open. "
73 " I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves. "
― Alice Munro , Lives of Girls and Women
74 " I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same. "
75 " The thing is to be happy,” he said. “No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. "
76 " She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about. "
77 " She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort. "
78 " Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places "
79 " One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them. "
80 " people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one "
― Alice Munro , Selected Stories