But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
Alice MunroShe 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 MunroIn your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice MunroI 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