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- “Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.”Lydia Davis
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- “If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”Lydia Davis
- “Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.”Lydia Davis
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- “What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to u…”Carrie Fisher
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Books by Lydia Davis
The end of the story
1995
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
2009
Can't and won't
2014
Samuel Johnson is indignant
2002
Almost no memory
1997