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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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.
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If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
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I've enjoyed my retirement.
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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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.
