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From Quotes by James Lee Burke
- 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…
- 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.
- How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or…
- Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones…
- And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a…
- In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though…
- writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the…
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