Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Lydia Davis' Guide to Life

I took a course called "Postmodern American Fiction". After all was said and done, this was the only thing worth a damn.

BORING FRIENDS

We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.

~Lydia Davis

1 comment:

  1. this is the only thing you got from it? watching me eat a cream cheese bagel with a spoon didnt do it for you?

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