"Say what you want about it, Hell is……" — Charles Baxter
"Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over."
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38 Quotes by Charles Baxter
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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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