Lydia Davis Quotes
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
Quotes to Explore
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
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It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort.
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That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.
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You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.
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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
