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“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.”

Alice Munro
People , Learning , Time

“The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.”

Alice Munro

Dear Life (2012)

World , Happiness

“People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things.”

Alice Munro

"Friend of My Youth", in Friend of My Youth https://books.google.com/books?id=JHO0R0im-WsC&pg=PT94 (1990)
Context: People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong.

People

“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”

Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness

Source: Too Much Happiness

Thinking , Change

“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”

Alice Munro

Source: Dear Life: Stories

Forgiveness , Time