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1931–2024 Canada
Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian author, primarily of short stories. The recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, she won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work.
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People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things.
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.
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Open Secrets (1994)
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Something had happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places.
Can you imagine illustration in modern novels? ... For instance, in Norman Mailer? They would have to be abstracts. Don’t you think? Sort of barbed wire and blotches?
Open Secrets (1994)