Nicholson Baker Quotes
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
Nicholson Baker
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
Zara Larsson
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
Carl Lewis
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
Salman Rushdie
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
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To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'
Nancy Grace
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
Randall Jarrell
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Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
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Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.
Chip Gaines
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Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Franz Marc
