Almost No Memory Quotes

“We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

“But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

“Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

“I was tired of so much thinking, which was what I did most in those days. I did other things, but I went on thinking while I did them. I might feel something, but I would think about what I was feeling at the same time. I even had to think about what I was thinking and wonder why I was thinking it.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory

“Suddenly there it is, my own spirit: an old white dog with bowed legs and swaying head staring around the corner of the porch with one mad, cataract-filled eye.”
― Lydia Davis, Almost No Memory