Book Quotes

    

Unfortunately, Alice Munro passed away this week at the age of 92. She was a Nobel Prize winner and wrote some great books.

In order to commemorate her, here are some of her wonderful quotes.

"A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you." Alice Munro (Selected stories)

Such a great allegory.

"Life would be grand if it weren't for the people."

I would agree for some part, it would be easier without some of the people but then there are the good ones ...

"The thing is to be happy, he said. No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world." Alice Munro  (Dear Life)

Not always easy but certainly worth a try.

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