“Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)” — Charles Baxter Charm Copy Share Image
“After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.” — Charles Baxter Addiction Copy Share Image
“Experience and disappointments had made us methodical.” — Charles Baxter Disappointments Copy Share Image
I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real. — Charles Baxter Being real Copy Share Image
“To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.” — Charles Baxter Advice Copy Share Image
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.” — Charles Baxter Life Copy Share Image
Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. — Charles Baxter Destiny Copy Share Image
“In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms… — Charles Baxter Communication Copy Share Image
“You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of… — Charles Baxter Death Copy Share Image
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one… — Charles Baxter Love Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have… — Charles Baxter Discipline Copy Share Image
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Couple Copy Share Image
“Of course they were children, he knew that, and that wasn't it. They gave off a terrible glow. They had the blank… — Charles Baxter Angels Copy Share Image
“Here's a profundity, the best I can do: sometimes you just know… You just know when two people belong together. I had… — Charles Baxter Discipline Copy Share Image
“She'd like to say something about the metaphors of space. She won't, but she'd like to. In many religions, the sun is… — Charles Baxter Metaphor Copy Share Image
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of… — Charles Baxter Hansel and gretel Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Books Copy Share Image
“Their imaginations put the scene on a film loop. Guiltily, they watched it until their mental screens began to wash the rest… — Charles Baxter Cinema Copy Share Image
“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.” — Charles Baxter Intelligence Copy Share Image
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't… — Charles Baxter Can't change Copy Share Image
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness. — Charles Baxter Failure Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.” — Charles Baxter Addiction Copy Share Image
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Character Copy Share Image
“Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter Anxious Copy Share Image
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action… — Charles Baxter Action Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do… — Charles Baxter Fall in love Copy Share Image
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