"You can tell it's a poem because it's……" — Nicholson Baker
"You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem."
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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 Gel Quotes
This quote is filed under Gel Quotes,
one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.
— Danica McKellar
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Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'!…
— Robert Pattinson
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It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell,…
— Ellen Pompeo
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When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then…
— Johnny Cash
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Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear.…
— Lorraine Moller
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
— Haruki Murakami
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I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything…
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why…
— Zach Braff
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In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat.…
— Morgan Spurlock
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I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we…
— Ricky Hatton
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