"We feel an affinity with a certain thinker……" — Lydia Davis
"We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now."
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Lydia Davis
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36 Quotes by Lydia Davis
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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a…
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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…
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The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that…
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I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort…
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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…
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To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary…
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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…
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But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe…
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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…
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for…
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
— Herman Cain
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
— Unknown Author
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
— Howard Gardner
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to…
— Rajneesh
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