Lydia Davis Quotes
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
Quotes to Explore
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
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Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
