“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.”

—  Nicholson Baker, book The Anthologist

Source: The Anthologist

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Novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer 1957

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