"Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer."

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Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

Lydia Davis

#Answers Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...”
“There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.”
“It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"”
“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”
“How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.”
“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.”

Source : "The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation with Alfredo Jaar". Art Journal Interview with Patricia C. Philips, www.publicart.ie. 2005.
“Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

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