Lydia Davis Quotes
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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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?
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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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.
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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.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
