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> [“You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of you. Love is the first cousin of death, they're acquainted with each other, they go to the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/you-can-not-figure-out-love-without-figuring-out-death-too-but-the/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

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## More by Charles Baxter

> [“Ethics is a dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/ethics-is-a-dream/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/it-s-my-feeling-that-any-writer-can-get-an-emotion-into-a-story/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/at-least-with-pets-and-for-all-i-know-people-too-intelligence-and/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/literature-is-not-a-sack-race-there-aren-t-real-winners-and-losers-in/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“...Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/hell-is-the-proof-of-god-s-failure-or-refusal-to-love/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/literature-is-not-an-instruction-manual-for-obvious-reasons-this-is/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/gurov-discovers-that-the-most-important-features-of-life-that-you/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/men-have-strength-miss-ferenczi-said-but-no-true-magic-that-is-why/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/there-s-nothing-to-talk-about-to-strangers-anymore-if-you-know-what-i/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/anyway-what-i-ve-just-told-you-was-what-prompted-the-chair-incident-i/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/intelligence-and-quick-wittedness-have-nothing-to-do-with-a-talent/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/when-you-re-in-love-you-don-t-have-to-do-a-damn-thing-you-can-just-be/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [“Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/against-the-odds-they-refuse-to-succeed/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/savor-the-imminent-weirdness-of-the-day/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

> [In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/in-truth-there-are-only-two-realities-the-one-for-people-who-are-in/)

[Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/)

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