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My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

James Lee Burke

Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.

James Lee Burke

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?

James Lee Burke

Morpheus' gifts used to come to me in bottles, Beam and black Jack Daniel's, straight up with a frosted schooner of Jax on the side, while the rain poor down in the neon glow outside the window of an all-night bar not far from the Huey Long Bridge. In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry.

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

Born: December 5, 1936 (age 86)

Bio: James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.

Known for:

The Neon Rain (1987)
Cadillac Jukebox (1996)
Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (2005)
Purple cane road (2000)

Most used words:

god, lives, mind, people, time, dream

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