Quote by Lydia Davis Download Open image ““Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean." Lydia Davis”” — Lydia Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“No matter how dirty, how filthy, how contaminated you are inside, I still love you. And since I feel that way about you, I… — Rihito Takarai Copy Share Image
“I honestly can't believe how people can think they can do dirt and not get dirty. And for those slinging mud ...take a look… — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“Miss Sumner, may I inquire as to why you're lounging on the floor?" Mrs. Watson asked. Miss Sumner uttered something which sounded very much… — Jen Turano Copy Share Image
“The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?” — M.A. George Copy Share Image
“Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.” — Shannon L. Alder 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
