Quote by Nicholson Baker
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. – Nicholson Baker

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So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry
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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they werent libelous or otherwise illegal. – Nicholson Baker

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice – that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it. – Sydney J. Harris

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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and Ill show you a man who cant get his pants on. – Joe E. Lewis

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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen

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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. – Blaise Pascal

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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think were just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. – David Herbert Donald

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