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You Quotes by Nicholson Baker
- Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
- 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…
- Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own…
- First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way…
- You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
- From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from…
- Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is…
- One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
- The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want…
- That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day…
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- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento