Nicholson Baker Quotes
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.
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The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.
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When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.
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In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.
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Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
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Oh, for the sake of momentumI've allowed my fears to get larger than life.And it's brought me to my current agendumWhereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive.And I know life is getting shorter,I can't bring myself to set the scene.Even when it's approaching torture,I've got my routine.
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I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.
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I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
