Charles Baxter Quote

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

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.

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Charles Baxter (actor) (died 1998), American actor in Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Charles Baxter (author) (born 1947), American author
Charles Baxter (painter) (1809–1879), English painter
Charles Baxter (politician) (1874–1950), Australian politician
Charles Baxter (rugby union) (born 1981), New Zealand rugby union player
Charles H. Baxter (1841–1923), American politician
Charles R. Baxter (1929–2005), American physician
Charles S. Baxter (1866–1927), mayor of Medford, Massachusetts