Quote by Nicholson Baker
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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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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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Dreams
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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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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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Reading
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There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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Reading

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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Reading

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

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Reading

When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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Reading

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Children

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. – Horace

Education doesnt change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. – Robert Frost

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Change

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. – Oliver Cromwell

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Faith