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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'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
— Richard Peck
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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made…
— Dave Barry
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign…
— Yao Ming
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to…
— Max von Sydow
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
— Unknown Author
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
— Aravind Adiga
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of…
— Akira Kurosawa
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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
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Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,…
— Maureen Forrester
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