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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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.
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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.
