Alice Munro

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. ↗

— Alice Munro

#secrets #shame #shame

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. ↗

— Alice Munro

#forgiveness

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

— Alice Munro

#life

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in? ↗

— Alice Munro

#life

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. ↗

— Alice Munro

#pride #men

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time. ↗

— Alice Munro

#forgiveness

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. ↗

— Alice Munro

#change

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ↗

— Alice Munro

#easy #endless #i #just #mean

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ↗

— Alice Munro

#get #growing #happy #i #i think

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. ↗

— Alice Munro

#bridge #hasn #i #learn #looking