Nicholson Baker Quotes
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.
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Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.
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There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Man should be ever better than he seems.
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That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
