"The force of truth that a statement imparts,……" — Nicholson Baker
"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."
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59 Quotes by Nicholson Baker
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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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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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