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One Quotes by Nicholson Baker
- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one…
- E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out…
- I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to…
- One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
- Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities…
- There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I…
- True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe,…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle