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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

  Charles Frazier

  Character, Cold Mountain, Foul

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, 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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• 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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• I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

  Charles Frazier

  Thinking, Needs, Want

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• That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

  Charles Frazier

  Pain, Memories, Giving

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.277, 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

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

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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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• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Boys, Grandparent

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  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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• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Powerful, Air, Comforting

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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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• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Believe, Dark, Soul

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

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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

  Charles Frazier

  Wish, Wipe, Goes On

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Vocabulary, Biting, Opinion

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

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• Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

  Charles Frazier

  Revenge, Disease, Destructiveness

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.86, Random House

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• I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

  Charles Frazier

  Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska

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• The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

  Charles Frazier

  Past, Thinking, Stronger

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• All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

  Charles Frazier

  Grandchildren, Men, Passing On

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

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• It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

  Charles Frazier

  Ideas, Long, Wells

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Spirit, Cold Mountain, Cases

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

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• There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

  Charles Frazier

  Long, Desire, Redemption

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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