Best things Quote by James Lee Burke

“Why don’t you try to make me feel bad?”

— 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…

— James Lee Burke

“A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood…

— James Lee Burke

“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that…

— James Lee Burke

“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way…

— James Lee Burke

“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.”

— James Lee Burke

“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head…

— James Lee Burke

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a…

— James Lee Burke

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only…

— James Lee Burke

“If people stick together, they can always make do.”

— James Lee Burke

“When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address…

— James Lee Burke

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is…

— James Lee Burke