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

  Charles Frazier

  Ideas, Long, Wells

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Horse, Nice, House

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Brother, Past, Self

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

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