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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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Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's…
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You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have…
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I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an…
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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
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If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do…
— Lydia Davis
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An easy person to get in a relationship is hard to lose cuz they keep comein back. But the difficult person to…
— Unknown Author
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There are times when you may feel like youre stuck with a very difficult person, and theres no way out. In these…
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You know, I just wanna offer an explanation, sir, as to why you wound up on the side of state 20. It's…
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