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Lydia Davis has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already…
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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That…
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You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater…
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The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not…
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I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there…
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No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go…
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To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,…
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Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
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But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply…
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Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.
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I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for…
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways…
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I am always searching for more light and space.
— Santiago Calatrava
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Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
— Paulo Coelho
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of…
— Unknown Author
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We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well…
— Daniel Topolski
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways…
— Lydia Davis
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I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to…
— Will Ferrell
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Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for…
— Misty Copeland
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For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects,…
— John Hawkes
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
— Rafael Nadal
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You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it…
— Rick Springfield
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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a…
— Tom Robbins
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