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Top 20 Mona Simpson Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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Mona Simpson Quote: “We all – in the end – die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”

2. “We all – in the end – die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”

3. “He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?”

4. “Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “Love ruined people’s lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”

6. “Love ruined people’s lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “And even if you hate her, can’t stand her, even if she’s ruining your life, there’s something about her, some romance, some power. She’s absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.”

9. “And even if you hate her, can’t stand her, even if she’s ruining your life, there’s something about her, some romance, some power. She’s absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.”

10. “Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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

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

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

15. “My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.”

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

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

17. “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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Mona Simpson Quote: “Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, “anywhere but here.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

18. “Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, “anywhere but here.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don’t ever go out for lunch and I don’t take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

20. “I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don’t ever go out for lunch and I don’t take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn’t matter anymore, forever after.”

21. “So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn’t matter anymore, forever after.”

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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Mona Simpson Quote: “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.”

23. “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

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