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  1. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in order to be there in that moment when the camera lens clicked shut.
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  2. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice.
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  3. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    I read a poem once that had a line in it about a white radiance that stains eternity.
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  4. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.
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  5. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator.
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  6. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us."
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  7. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    ALL MEN HAVE a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life was simply a biological accident.
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  8. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their parents.
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  9. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them.
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  10. James Lee Burke _ A Stained White Radiance

    I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit
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