Nicholson Baker Quotes
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.
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My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.
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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.
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There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.
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If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
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If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.
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Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.
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Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
