Quote by Nicholson Baker
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly hug

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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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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Reading
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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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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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Roses are red, violets are blue, Im schizophrenic, and so am I. – Oscar Levant

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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. – Samuel L. Jackson

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funny

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if thats all youve got, youre dead in the water. Its not good. – Howard Stern

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funny

Im not a believer in the pratfall. I dont think its funny just to have someone fall down. – Harold Ramis

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funny

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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. – Al Gore

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The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness. – Robert Crais

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I dont like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. – Mickey Mantle, 1970

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Baseball