Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
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Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.
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Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.
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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV.
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He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
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A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
