"I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I……" — Nicholson Baker
"I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing."
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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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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
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