"But spending your life concentrating on death is……" — Nicholson Baker
"But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis."
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59 Quotes by Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker has 59 quotes on this site.
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
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I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
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When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
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There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend…
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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
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I’ve always thought of myself as shy,
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You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do,…
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If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going…
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The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a…
— Albert Brooks
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The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing…
— Robert Caro
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I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.
— Tia Carrere
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A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of…
— Joe Morgan
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think…
— Bobby Jones
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Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.
— Sergio Garcia
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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,'…
— Lilian Jackson Braun
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Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually…
— Jennifer Granholm
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the…
— Ramana Maharshi
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