Alice Munro

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories

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  • exis574has quoted6 years ago
    but in real life they all smiled in rather a special way and you saw that what you had really done was serve yourself up as a conversational delight for the next coffee party.
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    I dare my brother to sound the horn, wanting to do it myself but not wanting to get the blame.
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    “If that was true there wouldn’t be hardly one marriage in this town.”
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    personal touch but I am so worn out tonight with all the unfamiliar pressures here that
  • exis574has quoted6 years ago
    This is the first time I ever remember taking deep breaths, consciously, for purposes of self-control. I really wanted to murder him.
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    That’s not a normal way for a person to behave
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    No. But here comes the disclosure which is not easy for me: I am a writer. That does not sound right. Too presumptuous; phony, or at least unconvincing. Try again. I write. Is that better? I try to write. That makes it worse. Hypocritical humility. Well then?
  • exis574has quoted6 years ago
    “I think it’s lovely for people to have things.”
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    delight in her. But she did not trust them, she could not understand; when in her life had her grandmother promised her any fine thing before?
  • exis574has quoted6 years ago
    me from Mary Fortune’s territory into the ordinary world.
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