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I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Lydia Davis postmodernism writing

What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together be…

Lydia Davis Varieties of Disturbance perfect relationships

Art is not in some far-off place.

Lydia Davis The Collected Stories art creativity

I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or shoul…

Lydia Davis books reading time

... as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility and stopped trying to do anything at all, I was relatively at peace, even th…

Lydia Davis Can't and Won't: Stories peace

First they burned her - that was last month. Actually just two weeks ago. Now they're starvng him. When he's dead, they'll burn him too. Oh, how jolly. All this burning of family m…

Lydia Davis Varieties of Disturbance death family

One gains courage from the one in front of her and moves forward a few steps, passing her by just a little. Now the one farthest back gains courage from the one in front and moves …

Lydia Davis Can't and Won't: Stories courage

I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness m…

Lydia Davis Varieties of Disturbance sex whales

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.

Lydia Davis Samuel Johnson Is Indignant childbearing children mother motherhood pregnancy

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Lydia Davis accomplishment depression idleness terror

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Unscramble LYDIA 5-letter words that start with L 5-letter words that end in A 5-letter words containing YD 5-letter words containing IA 5-letter words with L and Y

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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E

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N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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