"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

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Identity Quotes

“There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.”
“Value investing is risk aversion.”
“Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself”
“Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.”
“Oh, what company good poets are!”
“We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.”
“I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.”
“The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.”

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