Mona Simpson Quotes
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
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I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
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Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
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When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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I have created a new universe from nothing.
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From a business standpoint, it's always benefited me. The more I give, the more I get back.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
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The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
