Charles Frazier Short Quotes

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It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

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When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

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When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

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She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

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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

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

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Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

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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.

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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.

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[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

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Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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