Can't change Quote by Charles Baxter

“You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.”

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“Ethics is a dream.”

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Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

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“...Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.”

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“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

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“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.”

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“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall…

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There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

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“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.”

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“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.”

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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 quiet in the world.…

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I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

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You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

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