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“We are...so far removed from the realities of production and work that we inhabit a dream world of artificial stimuli and televised experience.”
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“The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
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“His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.”
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
“A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.”
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“This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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