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

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Source : "Mona Simpson Transforms Her Rich Personal Life Into Powerful Fiction" by Ruth S.Barrett, www.elle.com. May 2, 2014.

Mona Simpson

#Vision Quotes #Stories Quotes #Love Story Quotes

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”
“One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.”
“Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.”
“I said, 'If the quarterback is a runner, it'll work.' But if your quarterback's not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn't work without the quarterback running the ball.”
“Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.”
“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
“The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.”
“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

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