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- Hector Hugh Munro: British Novelist, Writer
- Alice Munro: Canadian short story writer
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
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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.
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I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.
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I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
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I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.'
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
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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.
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
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