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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist Apartment

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Nicholson Baker

Friends Or Friendship

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Nicholson Baker

Books And Reading Reality

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like - Nicholson Baker Quotes

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like

Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist Life

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist Restaurants

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? - Nicholson Baker Quotes

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist

A slight asymmetry inspired instant fondness. - Nicholson Baker Quotes

A slight asymmetry inspired instant fondness.

Nicholson Baker

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. - 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.

Nicholson Baker

American Novelist

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