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Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Appears Change How Interests Lot Me Past People People Change Present Something Time Whole

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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Complexity Easy Endless Just Mean Nothing Seems Simple Things Within

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In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Anyway Began Changed Days Did Early Early Days Ending Endings Enjoyed Happy Happy Ending Heights Heroines Ideas Important Important Thing Later Like Place Read Take Thing Things Those Tolerate Tragic Unhappy Very Which Would

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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Am Diaries Just Kept Lot More Most Never People Remember Self-Centered Than

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Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Bothered Constantly Expected Fact Housewife Housework Interrupted Later Laundry Life Me Never Really Space You Your

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For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Ages Amount Become Best Body Certain Comfort Comfort Zone Could Different Different Person Had Happened Idea Long Long Time Me Mind More Person Pushed Reach Same Surprise Then Time Work Would Write Your Your Body Zone

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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Different Keep Memory Other Our Ourselves People Somewhat Stories Telling Version Way

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Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Also Always Complications Doubt Dramatic Ever Fashion Finding Full Go God Guilty Infidelity Innocent Just Life Other Out Person Secrecy Stuff Thought Were Wickedness Will Writer Writers Writing You

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'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Canada Early Encouraging First Informal Long Long Time Magazines Me Messages Never New New Yorker Nice Notes Only Published Royal Sending Sent Signed Stopped Stories Story Terribly Them Then Though Time Were Yorker 1950S

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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Admire Bridge Learn Looking Out People Play Seemed Tennis Things Those Time Window

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: July 10th, 1931

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