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Mona Simpson Quotes

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin Picture Quote #1

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying Picture Quote #1

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip Picture Quote #1

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home Picture Quote #1

Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world Picture Quote #1

I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn’t have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins Picture Quote #1

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I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in ‘Gourmet.’ It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did Picture Quote #1

Casebook’ is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love Picture Quote #1

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, ‘Mind Hunter.’ Picture Quote #1

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I’d used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we’d both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father Picture Quote #1

It’s a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous Picture Quote #1

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it’s an intriguing, fascinating world Picture Quote #1

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I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif Picture Quote #1

Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work Picture Quote #1

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson’s Ice Cream shop Picture Quote #1

He was a man too busy to flush toilets Picture Quote #1

Love ruined people’s lives, the way our parents said drugs could Picture Quote #1

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything Picture Quote #1

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My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again Picture Quote #1

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love Picture Quote #1

In every person’s face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth Picture Quote #1

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don’t ever go out for lunch and I don’t take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps Picture Quote #1

Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother Picture Quote #1

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work Picture Quote #1

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn’t matter anymore, forever after Picture Quote #1

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don’t know that, don’t know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever Picture Quote #1

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life Picture Quote #1

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Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin (Mona Simpson Quotes) The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying. (Mona Simpson Quotes) In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip. (Mona Simpson Quotes) We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home. (Mona Simpson Quotes) Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world. (Mona Simpson Quotes) I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn’t have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins. (Mona Simpson Quotes) I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in ‘Gourmet.’ It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did. (Mona Simpson Quotes) Casebook’ is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love. (Mona Simpson Quotes) I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, ‘Mind Hunter.’ (Mona Simpson Quotes) I eventually made the reunion with my father that I’d used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we’d both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father. (Mona Simpson Quotes) It’s a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous. (Mona Simpson Quotes) The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it’s an intriguing, fascinating world (Mona Simpson Quotes) I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. (Mona Simpson Quotes) Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work (Mona Simpson Quotes) The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson’s Ice Cream shop (Mona Simpson Quotes) He was a man too busy to flush toilets (Mona Simpson Quotes) Love ruined people’s lives, the way our parents said drugs could (Mona Simpson Quotes) The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything (Mona Simpson Quotes) My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again (Mona Simpson Quotes) Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love (Mona Simpson Quotes) In every person’s face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth (Mona Simpson Quotes) I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don’t ever go out for lunch and I don’t take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps (Mona Simpson Quotes) Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother (Mona Simpson Quotes) Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later (Mona Simpson Quotes) Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work (Mona Simpson Quotes) So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn’t matter anymore, forever after (Mona Simpson Quotes) We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don’t know that, don’t know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever (Mona Simpson Quotes) I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life (Mona Simpson Quotes)