Lydia Davis Quotes
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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I am not too intelligent.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.
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I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
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Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
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When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.
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My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.
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'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'
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If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
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We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
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'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
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We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.
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We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.
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I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
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I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.
