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Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

James Lee Burke

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James Lee Burke
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 5
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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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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
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But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon.
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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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Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
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Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside 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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