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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.

Charles Frazier

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Charles Frazier
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Asheville
North Carolina
Spring
Root
Hear
Till
Lizard
Dies
Wings
Mole
Back
Sing
Lizards
Roots
Moles
Ground
Moan
Bird
Weep
Mountain
Darling

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I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.
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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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