"What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice……" — Charles Baxter
"What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you ..."
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38 Quotes by Charles Baxter
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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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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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What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in…
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll…
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If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism,…
— Howard Zinn
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It…
— Carol Kent
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The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or…
— Wilfred Owen
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the…
— Koichi Tohei
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Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty…
— Frederick Douglass
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to…
— Agnes Repplier
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Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring,…
— Asger Jorn
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