350 Quotes by Alice Munro

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind,′ her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. ‘When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

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.

To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.

I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn’t believe it anymore.

I know how you love this place,” he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don’t tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here – some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.

They had something close in front of them, a picture in front of their eyes that came between them and the world, which was the thing most adults seemed to have.

I knew I would be famous one day. That’s because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

Chronic means that it will be permanent but perhaps not constant.