The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakespeare his writing shed the most perfect light - there's no striving in it, no personality. Well, of course, wouldn't I love to do thatAlice Munro
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