15 ordspråk av Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker
 A slight asymmetry inspired instant fondness. |
| Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. |
| Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. |
| Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. |
| Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? |
| I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. |
| Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen. |
| Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. |
| Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. |
| That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. |
| The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like |
| Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. |
| Vox, |
| What sugar-packet manufacturer could have known that people would take to flapping the packet back and forth to centrifuge its contents to the bottom, so that they could handily tear off the top? |
| Women are much more in touch with the backs of themselves than men are: they can reach higher up on their back, and do so daily to unfasten bras; they can clip and braid their hair; they can keep their rearward blouse-tails smoothly tucked into their skirts. |
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