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Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.
James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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...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 and Heaven.
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Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
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And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
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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 probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.
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