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• Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

  Charles Frazier

  Simple, Sacred, Consciousness

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.97, 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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• 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.

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  Grandchildren, Men, Passing On

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

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• And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

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  Brother, Past, Self

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.422, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

  Charles Frazier

  Mind, Age, Literature

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.328, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

  Charles Frazier

  Break, Happened

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.45, Random House

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• Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

  Charles Frazier

  Needs, Cold Mountain, Mines

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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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• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  Charles Frazier

  Giving Up, Reading, Listening

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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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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

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

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  Charles Frazier

  Two, People, North Carolina

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• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  Charles Frazier

  Beautiful, Father, School

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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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• Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.

  Charles Frazier

  Distance, People, Different

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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