James Lee Burke Quotes

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• There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
• We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in…
• I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I…
• Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you…
• ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth…
• Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
• Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If…
• That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody…
• When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You…
• There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
• But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history…
• I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase…
• We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
• One day you'll have a quiet heart.
• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at…
• Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
• THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas…
• If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And…
• But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter…

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