"Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see:……" — Mona Simpson
"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."
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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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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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In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the…
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no…
— John Burroughs
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Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.
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I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad…
— Carmelo Anthony
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My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for…
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction,…
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Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time,…
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of…
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Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be…
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to…
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I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.
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It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100%…
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