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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.
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
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I have three kinds of “quality time.” The first I call “Split-Brain Time” because only one side of my brain is with my children.... The second type of quality time is what I call “Timed Time” and is best characterized by declarations such as, “okay, you children have ten minutes to get in bed and fall asleep....” On the really bad days I settle for the “Quality Greeting”Ma brief “Hi there! or “Sleep tight”Musually uttered from a comfortable chair just before I drift off to sleep.
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)