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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a

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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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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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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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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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E. V. Lucas

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My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. Im a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive. – Maria de Villota

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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. Were dreamers, you see, but were also realists, of a sort. – William Gibson

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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that theres a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration. – Jane Mayer

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Education has fundamentally changed my life. Its perhaps the mission of my life. Im wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina. – Bev Perdue

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