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  1. Alice Munro _ Alice Munro's Best: Selected

    MY MOTHER PRAYED on her knees at midday, at night, and first thing in the morning. Every day opened up to her to have God's will done in it. Every night she totted up what she'd done and said and thought, to see how it squared with Him. That kind of life is dreary, people think, but they're missing the point. For one thing, such a life can never be boring. And nothing can happen to you that you can't make use of. Even if you're wracked by troubles, and sick and poor and ugly, you've got your soul to carry through life like a treasure on a platter.
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  2. Alice Munro _ Alice Munro's Best: Selected

    Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity.
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  3. Alice Munro _ Alice Munro's Best: Selected

    I had once heard somebody say, at a party, that one of the nice things about marriage was that you could have real affairs – an affair before marriage could always turn out to be nothing but courtship.
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  4. Alice Munro _ Alice Munro's Best: Selected

    For later generations of women-post Sexual Revolution-enjoying sex was to become simply a duty, the perfect orgasm yet another thing to add to the list of required accomplishments; and when enjoyment becomes a duty, we're back in the land of "dreariness of spirit.
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