Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Charles Baxter

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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

Jack Straw
- Up
- Children
- Mother
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

Frances Mayes
- Live
- Country
- America
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

Kacey Musgraves
- Music
- Book
- Reading
Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

Pamela Nicholson
- Career
- Been
- Focused
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

J. Tillman
- Experience
- Think
- Vanity
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

Olga Kurylenko
- Father
- Alone
- Mom