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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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.
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We have to defend America and be strong.
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I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
