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He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Charles Frazier

Regret, Names, Might

Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.281, Atlantic Monthly Press

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One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

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Book, Boys, Grandparent

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Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Charles Frazier

Hurt, Forever, Sin

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

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Teenage, Wind, Two

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You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Charles Frazier

Knows

Charles Frazier (2013). “Thirteen Moons”, p.275, Hachette UK

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It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

Charles Frazier

War, Too Much, Good Things

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

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Clever, Writing, Two

"Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

Charles Frazier

Journey, Thinking, Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

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Powerful, Air, Comforting

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We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

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Character, Cold Mountain, Foul

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.

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Children, Pain, Heart

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.39, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

Charles Frazier

Too Much, Study, Complicated

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

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Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

Charles Frazier

Believe, Talking, Contentment

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Verbs. All of them tiring.

Charles Frazier

Verbs, Tire

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

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Wish, Wipe, Goes On

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.258, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.

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Believe, Dark, Soul

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.129, Random House

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Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

Charles Frazier

Giving, Phases, Littles

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My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

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Vocabulary, Biting, Opinion

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

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I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

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Horse, Nice, House

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He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

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Spirit, Cold Mountain, Cases

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

Attitude, Black, Style

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I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.

Charles Frazier

New York, Nice, Book

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What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

Charles Frazier

Life, Opportunity, Vocabulary

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.236, Random House

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What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Charles Frazier

Wish, Nerves, Want

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.410, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

Charles Frazier

Spring, Wings, Roots

Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.300, Atlantic Monthly Press

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