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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

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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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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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Nicholson Baker
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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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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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Beware of the person of one book. – Thomas Aquinas

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. – Karl Rahner

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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. – Proverb

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. – G. K. Chesterton

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