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.
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… - Charles Frazier
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…
- Charles Frazier
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate. - Charles Frazier
Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not. - Charles Frazier
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. - Charles Frazier
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
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… - 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…
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness.… - Charles Frazier
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness.…
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bo… - Charles Frazier
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bo…
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. - Charles Frazier
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. - Charles Frazier
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
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