Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazieris an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 November 1950
CountryUnited States of America
simple sacred consciousness
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.
revenge disease destructiveness
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.
people circumstances interest
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
memories war men
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.
spring wings roots
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.
forever desire gone
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
wish nerves want
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.
distance people different
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.
believe dark soul
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.
pain skins worst
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
hurt forever sin
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.
too-much study complicated
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.
valuable available
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.
hate air age-love
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.