"I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought.……" — Nicholson Baker
"I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read."
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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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More Healing Quotes
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and…
— Wendell Berry
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
— Lord Byron
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's…
— Nicolas Cage
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