"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."

-- Nicholson Baker

#World Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Groups Quotes

“A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
“The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.”
“Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.”
“Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.”

Source : "Iniesta graduates from cameo role to take centre stage at Barcelona" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.
“Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.”
“Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.”

Source : "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.
“Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.”

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