Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Quotes

“The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“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

“I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:

that Scotland has so few trees.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“She eats her potatoes as though she would make a revolution among them, as though they were the People.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“If I give all I have and you give all you have, isn't that a kind of equality? No, he says.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“I have never associated myself with such an unexpected part of the body as the thyroid”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

“And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant