Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
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Nicholson Baker Quote
“I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.”
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