Charles Baxter Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• 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

  Girl, Queens, Mistake

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

• The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

  Charles Baxter

  Sweet, Mistake, Made

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.31, Vintage

• There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Character, Sound

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

• 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.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Voice, Solitude

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

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