Quote by Lydia Davis Download Open image ““The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.”” — Lydia Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To this day the f-word turns my stomach. Because 'fine' is a euphemism for everything you're scared of saying.” — Amy Molloy Copy Share Image
Nobody is ever 'fine'. Fine is a bullshit word that people use when they are fed up with being asked 'what's wrong?' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Fine is the very definition of mediocrity. It's what's polite. It's what's socially acceptable. We need to live brighter and deeper than just fine,… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“...the word “fine”. As in “I’m fine”, “it’s fine”, “that looks fine”, etc. For a man the word fine has, tops, three or four… — Aaron Blaylock Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“You know what ‘fine’ stands for, don’t you?” When Jane didn’t respond, Grace answered for her. “It stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
“It was fine.” I’m getting real tired of that word. It’s a nothing word, and when people say it, it never really means what… — Leah Rae Miller Copy Share Image
“You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don’t want to talk about what’s really bothering… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“But on that particular day I did not even begin to feel interested in this chore, and was suddenly more deeply bored than I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Everything was sharper, clearer, and closer, as though, before, I had been seeing only little bits at a time, not all of it, of… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“He did not know exactly when to thank his hostess after attending a dinner or a weekend party. In his uncertainty, he would thank… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“So it’s not really $100 a shot because it goes on all day, from the start when you wake up and feel her body… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“The people of the town, though, remained strangers: I could not realize that I must be seeing some of them over and over again,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
