Alice Munro Quotes
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
