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Charles Frazier, born on November 4, 1950, is a renowned American novelist. His works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound historical background, with his most notable novel being 'Cold Mountain'.

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All Cold Mountain Ifs Way Writing Book Might Age Knows Littles Pain People Thinking War World Desire Made Mountain Wells Woods Asks

Famous Charles Frazier Quotes

“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.”

Ifs Problem Opinion Vocabulary Biting Hog

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

Ifs Life Lost Left Knowing Goes On Mark Scar Void Lost You Cold Mountain

Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel

Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel

“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?”

People Ifs Knows Bitter Why Not Ruined Wretched

Author:Charles Frazier

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Ifs Enough Pain Strong Grief Constant Endless Passing Passings Instant Strong Enough Drones Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Mind States Might Age Courses Literature Interest Loses State Of Mind Seeming Cold Mountain

Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel

Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel

“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.”

People Ifs Different Distance Desperate

Book:Nightwoods: A Novel

Source: Nightwoods: A Novel

“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?”

Ifs World Life Kind Wanted Opportunity Bits Weapons Weak Wit Assault Vocabulary Grammar Slap

Book:Thirteen Moons: A Novel

Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel

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

Ifs Giving Reading Listening Giving Up Sticks Suspects Listening To Music

Author:Charles Frazier

“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.”

Ifs Men Made Stills War Stories Might Remember Names Memories Childhood Late Murder Tiny Violent Civil War Killers Mary Pale Brutal Confusing Old Woman Dead Man Childhood Memories Finale

Author:Charles Frazier

“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.”

Ifs Two Different Heard Television Wind Radio Stations Chicago Isolated Sixty Teenage Right Direction Radio Stations Isolated Places

Author:Charles Frazier

About the Author

Born: November 4, 1950
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 102

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