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too much happiness (a quote from Alice Munro)

09 Friday Jun 2017

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“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.”                                                        ―Alice Munro

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because (a quote from Alice Munro)

16 Sunday Nov 2014

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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ―Alice Munro

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