Nicholson Baker Quotes
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
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I don't think I understood how deep the Big East was. That was probably something I wasn't prepared for. It's not easy to part rank and make the first step into the middle of the pack.
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I keep track of my kids sometimes with social media. I have to check TMZ every morning to see what's going on, and then at night, I go to bed with Snapchat.
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No matter where I go, I want to carry my family.
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I'm going to say whatever the hell I want to say.
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Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.
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A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
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I believe in the power of my subconscious mind and I am going to completely harness it.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.
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Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
