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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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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
— Ernst Mayr
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It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge…
— Darius Milhaud
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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
— Stella Gibbons
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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…
— Lydia Davis
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It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
— Gore Vidal
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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed…
— R. F. Delderfield
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll…
— David Byrne
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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
— Lawrence Welk
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When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious,…
— Stevie Wonder
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