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Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

James Lee Burke

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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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Houston
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Fear
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Freedom

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..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?
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The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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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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Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside 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 revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
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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 God's thumbprint from their souls.
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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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You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
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Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
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What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.
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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 it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
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To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
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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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You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
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Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
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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 auction them. And then I lost the box.
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