Lydia Davis
Related JAMES FENTON I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swe... CAROL BRUESS LEWIS CARROLL QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON GREGORY PECK CHARLAINE HARRIS PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON KING SOLOMON FREDERICK THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE ANTOINETTE QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN QUEEN VICTORIA KING JAMES I CHARLES V KATE MIDDLETON MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK THE GREAT HUSSEIN OF JORDAN QUEEN CHRISTINA PRINCE CHARLES QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
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LYDIA LENKER Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get s... LYDIA LEONARD To write erotic proza is not statisfactory. You are always exited but never done. LYDIA ROOD LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. LYDIA LUNCH I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction... LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She&#... LYDIA LEONARD LYDIA MILLET LYDIA MILLET I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely ... LYDIA LUNCH I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vag... LYDIA LUNCH I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you&#... 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LYDIA SARTAIN LYDIA MILLET I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though m... LYDIA LEONARD I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I kne... LYDIA LEONARD I'm like a one-woman protest machine. LYDIA LUNCH LYDIA MILLET If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to pl... LYDIA KO Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because ... LYDIA KO LYDIA MILLET 'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rat... LYDIA LEONARD LYDIA MILLET She said she bit him and kicked him and that's when she said she seen his tattoo on his hand and a s... LYDIA FERNANDEZ I think we need more acute care. What if you're too sick to be transferred to San Antonio? LYDIA CABALLERO The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I d... 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Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... 
He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more picture... 
Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex. 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. 
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... 
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. 
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... 
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. 
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. 
If you think of something, do it.
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately di... 
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, altho... 
I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a dis... 
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city ... 
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered ... 
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or ev... 
Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile... 
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no... 
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... 
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol... 
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.