Author: Charles Baxter

Cites

• Primo Levi (1)
  • IN: There's Something I Want You to Do (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is common knowledge that nobody is born with a decalogue already formed, but that everyone builds his own either during his life or at the end, on the basis of his own experiences, or of those of others which can be assimilated to his own; so that everybody’s moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes to be identified with the sum of his former experiences, and so represents an abridged form of his biography.
    FROM: The Reawakening, (1963), Book, Italy
• Samuel Beckett (1)
  • IN: The Feast of Love (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.
    FROM: Molloy, (1951), Novel, Ireland
• Frank Bidart (1)
  • IN: The Soul Thief (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed I had my wish: — I seemed to see the conditions of my life, upon a luminous stage: how I could change, how I could not: the root of necessity, and choice.
    FROM: Golde State, (1973), Poem, US
• Johannes Brahms (1)
  • IN: Saul and Patsy (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I very much wanted to manage in that first movement without using trombones, and tried to. . But. . I must confess to you that I am a profoundly melancholy man, that black wings flap incessantly above us. . no — I must have my trombones.
    FROM: Johannes Brahms, in a letter to Vincenz Lachner, (1879), Letter, Germany
• Paul Simon (1)
  • IN: Saul and Patsy (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
    FROM: America, (1968), Song, US