Lydia Davis Quotes
Lydia Davis Quotes
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
3569 There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
2041 But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.
1343 Art is not in some far-off place.
3640 At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
2886 If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.
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