"Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind."

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Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jun 25, 2010

Alice Munro

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Be Kind Quotes

“One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
“Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.”
“What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.”
“Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.”
“But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.”
“How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.”
“Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.”
“If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.”

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