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  1. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Ora non credo piú che la gente abbia segreti precisi e comunicabili, né sentimenti esuberanti e facili da riconoscere. Non ci credo piú.
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  2. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Dorothy," said my mother, shifting gears with an angry little spurt, and we cleared the top of the hill,
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  3. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    These are not sentimental keepsakes. She never looks at them, and often forgets what she has there. They are not booty, they don't have ritualistic significance. She does not take something every time she goes to Gordon's house, or every time she stays over, or to mark what she might call memorable visits. She doesn't do it in a daze and she doesn't seem to be under a compulsion. She just takes something, every now and then, and puts it away in the dark of the old tobacco tin, and more or less forgets about it.
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  4. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Long after all the chocolates were eaten, and the cousins had gone, we kept the chocolate-box in the linen-drawer in the dining-room sideboard, waiting for some ceremonial use that never presented itself. It was still full of the empty chocolate cups of dark, fluted paper. In the wintertime I would sometimes go into the cold dining room and sniff at the cups, inhaling their smell of artifice and luxury; I would read again the descriptions on the map provided on the inside of the box-top: hazelnut, creamy nougat, Turkish delight, golden toffee, peppermint cream.
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  5. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be.
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  6. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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  7. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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  8. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?
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  9. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other.
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  10. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    I lie in bed beside my little sister, listening to the singing in the yard. Life is transformed, by these voices, by these presences, by their high spirits and grand esteem, for themselves and each other. My parents, all of us, are on holiday. The mixture of voices and words is so complicated and varied it seems that such confusion, such jolly rivalry, will go on forever, and then to my surprise-for I am surprised, even though I know the pattern of rounds-the song is thinning out, you can hear the two voices striving.Then the one voice alone, one of them singing on, gamely, to the finish. One voice in which there is an unexpected note of entreaty, of warning, as it hangs the five separate words on the air. . Wait. . Now, wait. .
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  11. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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  12. Alice Munro _ The Moons of Jupiter

    Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.
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