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Wallis Simpson Biography

Socialite

Wallis Simpson, a British socialite, was born on June 19, 1896, and died on April 24, 1986. Known for her beauty and charm, she had a famous romance with King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to his abdication.

Sports Crime Hunting Foxes My Sympathy

Author:Wallis Simpson

“There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.”

Ends Marriage Broken Painful Divorce Dramatic Thread Stubborn Tangled Summary

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“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.”

Moving Air Objects Reflection Chairs Furniture Peacefulness Rocking Chairs

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“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”

Real Lying Understanding Growth Marriage Essence Partners Acceptable

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“A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.”

Needs Long Marriage Fire Emotional Claims Burned Persist Burned Out Afterglow

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“There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.”

Humans Dark Silence Doubt Human Relations Human Relationships

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“I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.”

Long Wisdom Life Is Understanding Taste Long Time Confused Shared Experiences Wisdom And Experience

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“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.”

Mind Firsts Humans Long Pain Loss Race Emotion Consciousness Details Crowds Human Race Tragic Daily Life Lasting Thrust Recollection Piercings Tragic Loss

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“All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.”

Long Life Is Understanding Sun Gone Example Mines Taste Long Time Laughter Confused Warmth Echoes Another Day Imports Revolving Shared Experiences Wisdom And Experience

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“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”

Challenges Situation Experience Intense Compelling Succession Revolving Revolving Doors

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“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.”

Life Inspirational Spirit Hope Defeat Uplifting Gallant Temporary Defeat Critical Spirit

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“You can never be too rich or too thin.”

Wealth Rich Fashion

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“I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.”

States United United States Fashion Travel Fascinating Pregnancy Funny Travel Visiting Supermarkets Salons

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“I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.”

Thinking World Facts Light Anxious

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“I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.”

Sometimes Courage Offers New Things

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“I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.”

Looks Made Hundred England Wrecks

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“You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.”

Ideas Hard Romance No Idea Great Romance

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“I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.”

Looks I Can Beautiful Can Do Dresses Beautiful Women

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“I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.”

Hate I Hate Graves

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“Never explain, never complain.”

Complaining

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About the Author

Born: June 19, 1896
Died: April 24, 1986
Known for: Socialite
Quotes: 20

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