"I don't think that most women have to……" — Charles Baxter
"I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real."
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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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Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine,…
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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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More Graduate Quotes
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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel…
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to…
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
— Bill Bryson
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement;…
— Vince Cable
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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge…
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in…
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have…
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After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
— Rachel Maddow
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I…
— Erma Bombeck
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