"You know the pain is part of the……" — Lydia Davis
"You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t."
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36 Quotes by Lydia Davis
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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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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
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