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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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Houston
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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 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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Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
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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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One day you'll have a quiet heart.
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Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
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I think the crime novel has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view is the most neglected writer in American literature.
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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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If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.
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And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
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We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
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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.
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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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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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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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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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