"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry……" — Nicholson Baker
"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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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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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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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply…
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More Chair Quotes
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about…
— Red Adair
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
— Ben Bernanke
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When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
— Drew Bledsoe
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with…
— Andrea Bocelli
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own…
— Jackie Chan
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
— Dick Cheney
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
— Brian Clough
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
— Barbara Jordan
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries…
— Rosie Perez
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
— Wallace Stevens
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in…
— H.G. Wells
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