"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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Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “Anywhere but Here”, p.57, Vintage

Mona Simpson

#Grandmother Quotes #Faces Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I loved the idea that biology was logical.”
“There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.”
“If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.”
“I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.”
“I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.”
“There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.”

Source : Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.
“There have been major disagreements within the European Union.”
“In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1890). “Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890”

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