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

“Sofie arrives a few hours later. She finds it in herself to stroke her dead father's hair. Standing there, her mind is blank. If anything, it is a sea, an endlessness of translucent molluscs.

Then she exchanges a few words with a nurse. About what came before, about the death, how it happened, and a little more about the practicalities at hand, where her father will be moved, and how long he can stay there.

Something plunges through her, streaming out in her wake as she shuts the door and leaves her father on the bed.”
― Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant