"Sometimes I think with the telephone that if……" — Nicholson Baker
"Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?"
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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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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and…
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
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Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and…
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would…
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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