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Letter "N" » 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.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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Brain may, ceremony, despite, entente, fakery, imaginary friend, phrases, reappear, reappeared, reappears, relatives
«Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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finer, footnote, footnotes, hold fast, paragraphing, paragraphs, suckered, surfaces, testicular, The Library, wider
«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»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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argumentatively, defensible, horde, hordes, imparts, optionally, prominence, recorded
«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.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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sway
«Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
«Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?»
Author: Nicholson Baker
«A slight asymmetry inspired instant fondness.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
«I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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