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  1. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    So even very young she saw slavery as an ancient practice arising because rich people would rather not do hard work, and also from the tendency of people to clench hard to advantageous passages in the Bible and dismiss the rest.
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  2. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    I've had relatives so crooked they nearly went to prison, but if you have money you never actually go. They make you think it for a while, and that's your punishment.
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  3. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.
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  4. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future.
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  5. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.
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  6. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    When time is remote enough nobody amounts to much.
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  7. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again. I try very hard to keep my memory green and thus by sympathy live anew, or if not anew, aright, which is more to the point, much more.
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  8. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.
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  9. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    You can mire yourself in the past, but you can't change a damn thing in that lost world.
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  10. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    It was simple, and not one she'd ever found the strength to follow. The idea was, the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. And also maybe something about the great reluctance with which we let go of our belief in a just God.
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  11. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    great loss wasn't that simple. You couldn't just wish yourself out of it. You had to go through it all the way, had to let grief roll over you like Mississippi floodwater until it decided to let you rise to the surface and keep going, more beaten and broken than before.
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  12. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    V drifts into talking about generations. How grandparents and grandchildren so often get along very well. Remove one generation-twenty-five years at least-and the anger in both directions dissipates. All the failed expectations and betrayals become cleansed by an intervention of time. Resentment and bitter need for retribution fall away. Love becomes the operative emotion. On the old side, you're left with wrinkled age and whatever fractured, end-of-the-line knowledge might have accrued. Wisdom as exhaustion. And on the other side-which V still remembers with molecular vividness-youth and yearning and urgency for something not yet fully defined. Undiluted hope and desire. But by fusing the best of both sides, a kind of intertwining consciousness arises-grandmother and granddaughter wisdom emerging from shared hope, relieved of emotions tainted by control and guilt and anger. -I'll assume you're right, James says. But I wouldn't know much about long family relationships. When I was
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