3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Hicks

Robert Hicks is a writer, actor, and director living in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the movie Parked which played in over 50 markets nationwide and had a theatrical release in New York City. He has written three novels, "The Glass House," "The Last Word," and "A Better Place." They have been translated into multiple languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and more. His third novel, "A Better Place" was published on Amazon's Kindle Fire on April 29, 2012.

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Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by twisting and bending around the wound: it is still recognizably a tree, it still lives as a tree, it still puts out its leaves and acorns, but its center, hidden deep within the curtain of green, remains empty and splintered where it hasn't been grotesquely scarred over. We are happy the tree hasn't died, and from the proper angle we can look on it and suppose that it is the same tree as it ever was, but it is not and never will be. Robert Hicks
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I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I would never again look at a man without wondering what crimes he was capable of committing. That seemed important to know. Robert Hicks