Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
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--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
Charles Baxter
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano
With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance. (p. 191)
Marshall McLuhan
There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
Machado de Assis
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
Haley Joel Osment
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--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
Charles Baxter
