Alice Munro Quotes :
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
“The stories are about the things that people can’t always say out loud.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
“I want to tell stories about people who are surprising – even to themselves.”
“A story is not like a road to follow… it’s more like a house.”
“People are curious. A few people are. … They will keep looking and asking questions.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”
“The past is always changing, but we can’t stop it from changing.”
“We change how we look at life, but life doesn’t change.”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do – we do it all the time.”
“You can’t understand everything at once, we understand one thing, then another, and in some way they all fit together.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are and all that. They never stop to think about what you are.”
“The world is going to keep changing no matter how much we don’t want it to.”
“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love until it entered her own life.”
“We can never escape the past, and it shapes who we are.”
“It’s a hard world to be in, and nothing comes easy, you know.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way to make itself relevant.”
“If we didn’t have mysteries, we’d have nothing to think about.”
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be treated as chapters of novels. They should be stories.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do.”
“A story is not like a road to follow… it’s more like a house.”
“I want to tell stories about people who are surprising – even to themselves.”
“Love removes the world for you.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven.”
“You can’t understand everything at once.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are.”
“The world is going to keep changing.”
“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love.”
“We can never escape the past.”
“It’s a hard world to be in.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way.”
“If we didn’t have mysteries, we’d have nothing to think about.”
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven.”
“A story is not like a road to follow.”
“I want to tell stories about people.”
“Love removes the world for you.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories.”