"Even more than we want good love for……" — Mona Simpson
"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."
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27 Quotes by Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson has 27 quotes on this site.
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
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I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love…
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We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
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We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be…
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So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after
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Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we…
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Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
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Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful…
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Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
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Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For…
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I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch…
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Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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