"I do have food in my books. Different……" — Mona Simpson
"I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways."
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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 Books Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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