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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – 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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funny
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Nicholson Baker
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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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Nicholson Baker
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Reading

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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Reading

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

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Reading

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. – Proverb

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Reading

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

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Appearances are deceptive. – Aesop

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Appearance

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. – David Attenborough

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Change

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, its about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. – Jim Harrison

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movies