Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, 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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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From caring comes courage.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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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 talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
