Quote by Nicholson Baker
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular pa

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker

Other quotes by Nicholson Baker

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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Dreams
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Reading
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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 printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – James Barrie

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Reading

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

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Reading

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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Reading

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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. – Saul Bellow

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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. – Harrison Ford

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dad

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – Gertrude Stein

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