"The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus,……" — James Lee Burke
"The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us."
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55 Quotes by James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke has 55 quotes on this site.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent…
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever…
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the…
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard…
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can…
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your…
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned…
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make…
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More Agamemnon Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited…
— Horace
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out…
— Christa Wolf
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I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,
— Heinrich Schliemann
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not…
— James Joyce
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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance…
— Aleister Crowley
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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down…
— Homer
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the…
— Umberto Eco
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory…
— Cedric H Whitman
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