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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.

— Alice Munro

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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)

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.

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