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The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? — James Lee Burke

Thinking at night isn't good for anybody. — James Lee Burke

God bless the world — James Lee Burke

This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense, he said. — James Lee Burke

All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there? — James Lee Burke

Cruelty and sentimentality are almost always companion characteristics in an individual but never cruelty and love. — James Lee Burke

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. — James Lee Burke

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. — James Lee Burke

The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record. — James Lee Burke

Shakespeare said that all power lies in the world of dreams, and I believe him. — James Lee Burke

Salish Kootenai College — James Lee Burke

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. — James Lee Burke

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit — James Lee Burke

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision. — James Lee Burke

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film — James Lee Burke

You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II. — James Lee Burke

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice. — James Lee Burke

We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That's what makes it so painful, kiddo. — James Lee Burke

No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy. — James Lee Burke

A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. — James Lee Burke

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him. — James Lee Burke

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. — James Lee Burke

You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants, Segura said. — James Lee Burke

In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck? — James Lee Burke

But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in them no more. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

There's another way to put it. Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water. — James Lee Burke

Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive. — James Lee Burke

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke

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

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. — James Lee Burke

I'm tired of sackcloth and — James Lee Burke

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? — James Lee Burke

Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton ... — James Lee Burke

You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance. — James Lee Burke

Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

Big as a horse turd floating in a milk shake.
Wyatt Dixson — James Lee Burke

Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory, — James Lee Burke

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. — James Lee Burke

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors? — James Lee Burke

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. — James Lee Burke

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others. — James Lee Burke

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel. — James Lee Burke

He wavin' at you, Dave. Hey, it's that drunk man done fell in the bayou the ot'er night. That man must surely love water. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

One day you'll have a quiet heart. — James Lee Burke

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head. — James Lee Burke

There's no substitute for loyalty. — James Lee Burke

Administrators don't believe in conspiracies. If they did, they'd have to resign their jobs. That — James Lee Burke

Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips. — James Lee Burke

I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete — James Lee Burke

It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better, I said. — James Lee Burke

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
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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. — James Lee Burke

God bless the Reference Librarians — James Lee Burke

Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux — James Lee Burke

It's funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth's old dance through the heavens. — James Lee Burke

Night Comes to the Cumberland. — James Lee Burke

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. — James Lee Burke

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now. — James Lee Burke

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — James Lee Burke

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable. — James Lee Burke

And I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven. — James Lee Burke

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. — James Lee Burke

Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day. — James Lee Burke

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. — James Lee Burke

It's a great burden, being one of the good guys. — James Lee Burke

We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them. — James Lee Burke

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. — James Lee Burke

Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton. — James Lee Burke

Maggie's face darkened, as — James Lee Burke

I read a poem once that had a line in it about a white radiance that stains eternity. — James Lee Burke

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? — James Lee Burke

I messed my pants, he said. — James Lee Burke

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves — James Lee Burke

I went to the bathroom in my pants. That's what you done, man. — James Lee Burke

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

beautiful street in the Western world. — James Lee Burke