Louis Simpson famous quotes

06-03-2025

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.
-- Louis Simpson

#Country #Fall #Grandmother
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.
-- Louis Simpson

#Mistake #Taken #Ignorance
The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
-- Louis Simpson

#Lonely #Echoes #Discovery
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.
-- Louis Simpson

#Men #Thinking #People
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!
-- Louis Simpson

#Rome #America #Weight
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his viewâ€”even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: â€˜charactersâ€™ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.
-- Louis Simpson

#Creativity #Character #Views
It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
-- Louis Simpson

#Complicated #Conscience
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
-- Louis Simpson

#Car #Used Car #Used
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.
-- Louis Simpson

#Lying #War #Mean
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
-- Louis Simpson

#Military #Men #Long

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