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Mona Simpson Quotes: "Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later."

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother."

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.




Mona Simpson Quotes: "Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working."

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin."

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.




Mona Simpson Quotes: "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."

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.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth."

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets."

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.




Mona Simpson Quotes: "Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could."

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life."

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love."

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop."

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever."

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.




Mona Simpson Quotes: "So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after"

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after



Mona Simpson Quotes: "Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways."

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "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."

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.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter."

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could."

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.



Mona Simpson Quotes: "But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins."

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.