Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness. Charles Frazier More Quotes by Charles Frazier More Quotes From Charles Frazier 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 biting vocabulary opinion 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 giving memories There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. Charles Frazier redemption desire long Our worst pain is confined within our own skin. Charles Frazier worst pain skins 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 self past 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 When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. Charles Frazier available valuable ...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. Charles Frazier pain heart children We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical Charles Frazier cold-mountain foul character It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. Charles Frazier wells long ideas I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me? Charles Frazier bitter why-not people I know I don't need him, but I think I want him. Charles Frazier want needs thinking Verbs. All of them tiring. Charles Frazier tire verbs 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 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 phases littles giving 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 nice new-york book 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 grandparent boys book 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 stronger past thinking 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 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 roots spring wings
