Quotes by Baker, Nicholson

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases >>

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence amon >>

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragr >>

Quotations about Sympathy

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies >>

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One >>

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large a >>

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 me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Baker, Nicholson