Top 60 Charles Baxter Quotes (2024 Update)
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Charles Baxter Quote: “Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors’ spit lands on your face.”

51. “Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors’ spit lands on your face.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.”

52. “I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”

53. “What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “To the beautiful falls the right of command, he observes, quoting Aristotle, although he adds that this situation is not always just.”

54. “To the beautiful falls the right of command, he observes, quoting Aristotle, although he adds that this situation is not always just.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.”

55. “Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.”

56. “After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Wherever you go online, the Big Computer knows what you want before you want it. It’s ready for you and waits patiently, humming. It knows where you will be tomorrow and what you will be doing, and it carefully calibrates the shame you carry with you in hopes that you will buy something to restore your peace of mind.”

57. “Wherever you go online, the Big Computer knows what you want before you want it. It’s ready for you and waits patiently, humming. It knows where you will be tomorrow and what you will be doing, and it carefully calibrates the shame you carry with you in hopes that you will buy something to restore your peace of mind.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “If God appeared on this earth again, lawyers would sue Him.”

58. “If God appeared on this earth again, lawyers would sue Him.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “This is desperation you’re witnessing,” he says, gripping her. All at once, the thought occurs to him that what he’s expressing is not love but hysteria, rising out of his own emptiness. He is in the grip of inflated speech, exaggeration, all the insincere locutions of opacity and self-deception.”

59. “This is desperation you’re witnessing,” he says, gripping her. All at once, the thought occurs to him that what he’s expressing is not love but hysteria, rising out of his own emptiness. He is in the grip of inflated speech, exaggeration, all the insincere locutions of opacity and self-deception.”

— Charles Baxter

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

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

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Passion occupies a space that is not vacated until another passion occupies it.”

61. “Passion occupies a space that is not vacated until another passion occupies it.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “One of the signs of a dysfunctional narrative is that we cannot leave it behind, and we cannot put it to rest, because it does not, finally, give us the explanation we need to enclose it.”

62. “One of the signs of a dysfunctional narrative is that we cannot leave it behind, and we cannot put it to rest, because it does not, finally, give us the explanation we need to enclose it.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “At the piano, he felt a stinging of notes in A minor play themselves, doodling down and then upward as a sort of introduction before an odd bluesy tune interrupted the chords he had been vamping around with. The tune started in his right hand before moving to his left, sounding vaguely like an absentminded jazz pianist remembering Bill Evans but as Bill Evans, debilitated and in a cocaine haze, might have remembered Debussy. All of Brettigan’s music was filled with memories of other music.”

63. “At the piano, he felt a stinging of notes in A minor play themselves, doodling down and then upward as a sort of introduction before an odd bluesy tune interrupted the chords he had been vamping around with. The tune started in his right hand before moving to his left, sounding vaguely like an absentminded jazz pianist remembering Bill Evans but as Bill Evans, debilitated and in a cocaine haze, might have remembered Debussy. All of Brettigan’s music was filled with memories of other music.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “This was his cure for low spirits. When you pour your first cup of coffee of the day, if you’re feeling crummy, put a dab of ice cream into it. It’s festive. Then you gotta trudge off like everybody else, like I said, but you got the ice cream with you. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.”

64. “This was his cure for low spirits. When you pour your first cup of coffee of the day, if you’re feeling crummy, put a dab of ice cream into it. It’s festive. Then you gotta trudge off like everybody else, like I said, but you got the ice cream with you. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Is there anything more restorative than the act of one person reading a beloved book to another person, also beloved? Slowly, I returned to my senses.”

65. “Is there anything more restorative than the act of one person reading a beloved book to another person, also beloved? Slowly, I returned to my senses.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have sleepless nights, how can he hope to cause sleepless nights in anyone else?”

66. “Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have sleepless nights, how can he hope to cause sleepless nights in anyone else?”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Before I met Oscar, I was fine. But then I met him, and I knew him, and I loved him, and he died, and after that, in an Oscarless world, I couldn’t go back to the way I was before I knew him, because I wasn’t the same person anymore. He mutated me.”

67. “Before I met Oscar, I was fine. But then I met him, and I knew him, and I loved him, and he died, and after that, in an Oscarless world, I couldn’t go back to the way I was before I knew him, because I wasn’t the same person anymore. He mutated me.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “Say what you will about it, Hell is story friendly. If you want a compelling story, put your protagonist among the damned. The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It’s about what happens when the stories are over.”

68. “Say what you will about it, Hell is story friendly. If you want a compelling story, put your protagonist among the damned. The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It’s about what happens when the stories are over.”

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Charles Baxter Quote: “He only loved his love for me.”

69. “He only loved his love for me.”

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