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"She reads a book about Zen and she writes down on a piece of paper the eight parts of Buddha’s eightfold path and thinks she might follow it. She sees that it mainly involves doing everything right."

— Lydia Davis, Five Signs of Disturbance

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"… a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him."

— Lydia Davis, “Liminal: The Little Man”

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