Mona Simpson Quotes

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

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• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Great
  • Matter

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Singing
  • Forever
  • Daily

• Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Real
  • Understanding
  • Forever

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• 'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Unique
  • Matter

• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Popular
  • Matter
  • Start

• The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Matter

• There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Forever

• I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Forever

• We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • America
  • Forever

• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Strong

• No blessing lasts forever.

  

  Plautus
  • Forever

• At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don't own forever.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Single
  • Forever

• If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • People
  • Hope
  • Forever

• We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hope
  • Humanity
  • motivation

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

  

  John Gutfreund
  • People
  • World
  • Different

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

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Forever
  • Matter
  • Crucial