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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?

— Alice Munro Open Secrets (1994)

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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.

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