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I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

Quentin Carmody didn't do early mornings, heights or bossy women. — Ros Baxter

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself. — Charles Baxter

When blame has been assigned, the story is over. — Charles Baxter

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)! — Richard Baxter

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day. — Charles Baxter

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation. — Richard Baxter

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all. — Les Baxter

She was damned if she was going to let a little thing like decapitation stand in the way of keeping him. — Jane Timm Baxter

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. — Richard Baxter

Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end. — Charles Baxter

Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries. — Greg Baxter

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature. — Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. — Richard Baxter

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits. — Les Baxter

Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)? — Richard Baxter

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. — Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. — Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. — Richard Baxter

You may know God, but not comprehend Him. — Richard Baxter

I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace. — Richard Baxter

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued. — Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy. — Richard Baxter

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. — Les Baxter

There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls. — Stephen Baxter

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday — Richard Baxter

[O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274). — Richard Baxter

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious. — Richard Baxter

And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something - "
"Transcendent. — Stephen Baxter

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking. — Stephen Baxter

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need. — Stephen Baxter

Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod. — Jim Gaffigan

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble. — Richard Baxter

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says. — Stephen Baxter

I did nothing that I might not have done better. — Richard Baxter

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. — Anne Baxter

and behind them the quivering mucosity of her tongue. — Charles Baxter

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

Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11. — Charles Baxter

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars. — Stephen Baxter

If God appeared on this earth again, lawyers would sue Him. — Charles Baxter

Every world needed an artist. — Stephen Baxter

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not — Richard Baxter

You'll have your heart cut out with a grapefruit knife; love does that. You won't have a chance against me until you're very old, if then. — Charles Baxter

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648). — Richard Baxter

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. — Meredith Baxter

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all. — Stephen Baxter

To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked. — Charles Baxter

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by. — Stephen Baxter

Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects, — Charles Baxter

I am trying to live without a preoccupation for endpoints. — Greg Baxter

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

Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own. — Karen Kingsbury

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful. — Richard Baxter

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving. — Stephen Baxter

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475). — Richard Baxter

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery. — Richard Baxter

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. — Stephen Baxter

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter

This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be. — Stephen Baxter

Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon. — Richard Baxter

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter

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

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own. — Richard Baxter

Against the odds, they refuse to succeed. — Charles Baxter

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each. — Les Baxter

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest. — Richard Baxter

See into life, don't just look at it. — Anne Baxter

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. — Richard Baxter

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You — Stephen Baxter

Which one of you's the bitch? — Stephen Baxter

This is mine," he growled, fangs bared. "You are mine."
Bria met him stare for stare. "Prove it. — Kate Baxter

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us. — Richard Baxter

And there's no such thing as too much back-up. — Stephen Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. — Richard Baxter

I'm not an intellectual composer. — Les Baxter

Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394). — Richard Baxter

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. — Les Baxter

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him. — J. Sidlow Baxter

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. — Stephen Baxter

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter

The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation. — Charles Baxter

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else? — Stephen Baxter

The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die. — Stephen Baxter

Earth stuff, Mars boy. — Stephen Baxter

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love. — Richard Baxter

Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her — Stephen Baxter

Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face. — Charles Baxter

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

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15). — Richard Baxter

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real. — Charles Baxter

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? — Richard Baxter

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter