Alice Munro

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Too much happiness

Emiley Jones

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.

All that drunken insight, that exhilaration, cast out of her like vomit. Aside from that, she was not hungover. She could wallow in lakes of alcohol, it seemed, and wake up dry as cardboard, flattened.

At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

Ioana Kardos

It amazes me how in such short stories Alice Munro introduces the reader into the richness of human thoughts and struggles, begging the reader to acknowledge the inner tumults of those tried by horrendous experiences. Here's a quote I liked: "If I loved you I would have written differently"

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