"Once upon a time, my mother lived in……" — 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, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm."
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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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