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title: "1 Lived Small Quotes By Mona Simpson"
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> [I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-left-the-midwest-when-i-was-twelve-years-old-and-i-haven-t-lived-in/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/mona-simpson-11854_left_i-left-the-midwest-when-i-was-twelve-yea_2744167.png)

## More by Mona Simpson

> [“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/is-it-true-is-it-kind-is-it-necessary-does-it-improve-upon-the-silence/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-ve-never-had-an-exclusive-relationship-to-a-room-where-i-write-i/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-do-have-food-in-my-books-different-people-eat-different-ways/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-grew-up-as-an-only-child-with-a-single-mother-because-we-were-poor/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/a-mother-s-happiness-something-you-recognize-and-then-forget-it-didn/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-m-a-simple-cook-and-there-s-a-lot-i-don-t-eat-but-food-is-important/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-knew-i-would-hate-my-best-memory-because-it-would-prove-that-people/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/once-upon-a-time-my-mother-lived-in-the-posh-downtown-of-homs-syria/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/in-my-30s-i-wrote-in-the-back-house-of-a-ramshackle-spanish-revival/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-read-a-lot-of-books-about-psychopaths-i-read-a-wonderful-book-amy/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/fashion-is-what-seems-beautiful-now-but-looks-ugly-later-art-can-be/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-eventually-made-the-reunion-with-my-father-that-i-d-used-as-a/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/i-remember-the-excitement-of-finding-a-great-pancake-recipe-in/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> [Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/gossip-is-essentially-storytelling-storytelling-about-people-whom-we/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

> ['Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-simpson/casebook-is-my-attempt-at-a-love-story-i-had-a-vision-of-a-difficult/)

[Mona Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-simpson/)

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