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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
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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
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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. - Nicholson Baker
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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. - Nicholson Baker
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? - Nicholson Baker
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. - Nicholson Baker
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I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing. - Nicholson Baker
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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. - Nicholson Baker
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price. - Nicholson Baker
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E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop. - Nicholson Baker
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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. - Nicholson Baker
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The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony. - Nicholson Baker
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The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read. - Nicholson Baker
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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. - Nicholson Baker
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From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. - Nicholson Baker
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