"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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Source : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Charles Frazier

#Character Quotes #Foul Quotes #Mark Quotes

“Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.”

Source : James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books
“Death cancels all engagements.”
“I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.”
“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”
“I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.”
“To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.”
“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”
“Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.”

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