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The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.”
“In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.”
“Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.”
“There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.”
“The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.”
“As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.”
“In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.”
“What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”
“I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.”
“The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.”
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humor, i-love-midwestern-guys, reality, love, ice-cream, art