James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burkeis an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Bluesand an Edgar Award for Cimarron Rose, and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwinand then Tommy Lee Jones. Burke's 1982 novel, Two for Texas, was made into a 1998 TV Movie by the same...
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CountryUnited States of America
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The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
artist vision remember
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
art writing thinking
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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Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
ends
We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.
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Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.
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Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
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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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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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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
country men views
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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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.
thinking tragedy matter
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.