“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”

— Alice Munro , book Lives of Girls and Women

Source: Lives of Girls and Women

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Canadian novelist 1931

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