Nicholson Baker Quotes

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Nicholson Baker

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PersistenceNothingOutSitBooks

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

AdversityFriendsKnowProsperityUs

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.

John Ridley

LivingOthersMoreThroughDays

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

Robin Williams

GreatThinkDarkPersonalStrange

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

LifeQualityEffortWritingDefeated

Usually, when we're performing 'What About Your Friends' or 'Waterfalls' comes on, they all know the dance. It's like a sea of TLC dancers in the audience! It's so beautiful to see. I just love it so much.

Rozonda Thomas

LoveSeaBeautifulDanceFriends

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

Mike Posner

LoveGreatPeopleThinkingGrow

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

Mike McCready

GoodMeWayEat

'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.

Lori Wilde

LifeFunnyTexasChristmasStar

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

DeathReadingLongJournalLikeHis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Domo Genesis

ThoughtsThinkingTryingSometimes

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

Dennis Miller

ManAnotherVoltaire

It takes a big man and a big woman to actually say, like, 'Okay, I'm in love with you, but I can't keep forcing it - it's only pushing us apart'.

Christina Milian

LoveWomanManYouSayOkay

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