Lydia Davis Quotes
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
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It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
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I think law enforcement should respect their undercover agents and listen to what they have to say.
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We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
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Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
