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 love bayou life.
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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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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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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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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
