Lydia Davis Quotes
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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We're always flexible and pragmatic... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
