Alice Munro Quotes on Truth
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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.