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Bad Quotes by Lydia Davis
- You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain…
- Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could…
- So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you…
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