"You can register a political objection in a…" — Nicholson Baker
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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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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running…
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim…
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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