"I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel."

-- Alice Munro

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“We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.”
“There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't normally see, which is how hedonistic it was. In reality, that's what was going on. But, all of it worked.”
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
“What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.”
“I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.”
“I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.”
“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”
“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”

Source : 1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

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