Carolina Quotes
But there are landscapes, I think, that people just identify as home, wherever home is. And for me, that's home. Whenever I'm back in those mountains, I feel like that's home, no matter how long I've been away. That's the place I know the best, and the place that in my imagination sums up all those things about being rooted and knowing a place and having a place.
Charles Frazier Carolinian
Source
Publisher's interview on the publication of Cold Mountain, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997; reproduced by BookBrowse
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- interview
- work
- Interview on Cold Mountain
- year
- 1997
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“But there are landscapes, I think, that people just identify…” Charles Frazier. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-93C4B8E8DB. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/93c4b8e8db
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