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Mona Simpson Quotes

American - Author | June 14, 1957 -

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

Father Relationship Time Childhood

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

People Gossip Know Storytelling Whom

Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.

Love Good Children World Want More

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

Small Small Town Old Years Lived

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.

Identity People Think Always Double

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.

Journey Great New York People City

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.

Animal World Learn You Animals More

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

Mind Me Book Wonderful Hunter Guy

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Love Time Story Problems Divorce

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Community Politics Looking Better

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

Love Vision Story Difficult Attempt

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Love People Hurt Assumptions Say Oh

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