Lydia Davis Quotes
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis
Quotes to Explore
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.
Stefano Langone
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If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.
Joan Cusack
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Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
Jimmy Breslin
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis
