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

Other quotes by Nicholson Baker

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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What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. – Scott Hamilton

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funny

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because its funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play thats enjoyable because its disturbing. – Wallace Shawn

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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think Im as sane as anyone whos done what Ive done in movies can be. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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funny

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out. – Margaret Cho

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A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber

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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! – Susan B. Anthony

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It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Love