"You think that what I've told you is……" — Charles Baxter
"You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have."
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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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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 Anecdote Quotes
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied…
— Bill Cosby
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware…
— Ross Douthat
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
— Mark Rothko
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their…
— Gilbert Burnet
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You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What…
— John L'Heureux
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
— Alice Munro
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