Nicholson Baker Quotes
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.
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I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you.
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
