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What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

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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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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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
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Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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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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