Nicholson Baker Quotes
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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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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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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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'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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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
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I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
