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Author: James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.
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James Lee Burke _ Last Car to Elysian Fields
Jolie Blon," the most haunting and unforgettable lament I have ever heard.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
But the past is the past, and you don't get it back.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
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James Lee Burke _ Creole Belle
when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.
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James Lee Burke _ Feast Day of Fools
They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They
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James Lee Burke _ Feast Day of Fools
He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future.
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James Lee Burke _ The New Iberia Blues: A Dave
At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead.
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