Carlene Bauer Quotes

#1. But I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the great cultural conversation because I had not been initiated into the mystery.

Carlene Bauer

#2. Her room is full of books by people who have radio hours. It's the gospel according to Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson - American dynamism gilded onto a platform of individual redemption. It's religion as detergent.

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#3. But women are awful for the same reason men are awful: limited scope.

Carlene Bauer

#4. You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee.

Carlene Bauer

#5. The Beats are really nothing more than a troop of malevolent Boy Scouts trying to earn badges for cultural arson.

Carlene Bauer

#6. It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck.

Carlene Bauer

#7. Our second Christian school was a real school, not a bunker for indoctrination.

Carlene Bauer

#8. Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather.

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#9. To be Catholic was to belong to an ethnic group, not a religion. You didn't really have to believe it, or act like you believed it, to be a Catholic. You just had to show up every week for Mass and go to Catholic school.

Carlene Bauer