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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I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. Its embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. – Keanu Reeves

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funny

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. – Steve Coogan

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funny

So often, I read scripts and am like, This would never happen in real life. Its not trying to be funny. Its trying to be serious. – Shailene Woodley

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funny

Well, Im not afraid to say something if I think its funny, even if its harsh or racist. – Sarah Silverman

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funny

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Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. – Germaine Greer

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

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My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. – Albert Finney

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Nobody roots for Goliath. – Wilt Chamberlain

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