"Because it is the Midwest, no one really……" — Charles Baxter
"Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware."
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38 Quotes by Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter has 38 quotes on this site.
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of…
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is…
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When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay…
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At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a…
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When blame has been assigned, the story is over.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
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At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I…
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive…
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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
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What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in…
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
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Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you…
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I…
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that…
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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