Famous Charles Baxter Quotes

  • Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself. – Charles Baxter

    Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.– Charles Baxter

  • After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism. – Charles Baxter

    After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.– Charles Baxter

  • The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything. – Charles Baxter

    The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.– Charles Baxter

  • My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. – Charles Baxter

    My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.– Charles Baxter

  • When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch. – Charles Baxter

    When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.– Charles Baxter

  • [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. – Charles Baxter

    [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.– Charles Baxter

  • Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. – Charles Baxter

    Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.– Charles Baxter