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Book: Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014
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  1. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    for since Munro's chosen form is the short story, her overriding theme is brevity-look now, act now, contemplate now, because soon, very soon, this thing that involves you will be over.
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  2. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    this is not a story, only life.
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  3. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    Jackson of course knew that books existed because people sat down and wrote them. They didn't just appear out of the blue. But why, was the question. There were books already in existence, plenty of them. Two of which he had to read at school. A Tale of Two Cities and Huckleberry Finn, each of them with language that wore you down though in different ways. And that was understandable. They were written in the past.
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  4. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    You remember your history?" He had finished five years of high school with respectable marks and a very good showing in trigonometry and geography but did not remember much history. In his final year, anyway, all you could think about was that you were going to the war. He said, "Not altogether.
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  5. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind," her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. "When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
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  6. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    They had something close in front of them, a picture in front of their eyes that came between them and the world, which was the thing most adults seemed to have.
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  7. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    A hero worn out by his struggle, one who had sacrificed his youth-that was how he might present himself, not without effect. And it was true, in a way. He was physically brave, he had ideals, he was born a peasant and knew what it was to be despised. And she too, just now, had been despising him.
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  8. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    Her father was outraged. "Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?
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  9. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    There ought to be one place you thought about and knew about and maybe longed for--but never did get to see.
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  10. Alice Munro _ Family Furnishings: Selected

    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.
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