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Book: Crusader's Cross
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
Those who live with insomnia and who consider sleep both an enemy and a gift will understand the following. Some of us cannot comprehend how anyone except the very good or those who have no conscience at all can sleep from dark to dawn without dreaming or waking. We hear William Blake's tiger padding softly through a green jungle, his stripes glowing, his whiskers spotted with gore. Psychoanalysis does no good. Neither does a health regimen that induces physical exhaustion. The only solution that is guaranteed is the one provided by our old friend Morpheus, who requires our souls in the bargain.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
about voices that can cry out for help in our sleep.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
The woman considered the wisest person in old New Orleans was a witch by the name of Marie LeVeau.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
A man is what he does. Titles are a distraction created to deceive obtuse people.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
Alcoholism is not a disease here but a venerated family heirloom.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
Get a lot of gone between you and this situation."
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
felt foolish and wondered if I had entered that self-deluded stage in an aging man's life when others have to protect him from knowledge
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and in effect become invisible. The rain forests in the Cascades and parts of West Montana come to mind, and perhaps the 'Glades still offer hope to those who wish to resign from modern times. The other place is the Atchafalaya Basin.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
What Victor Charles and the NVA couldn't do to him, or the Mob or his enemies inside NOPD, Clete had done to himself with fried food, booze, weed, whites on the half shell, and calamitous affairs with strippers, junkies, and women who seemed to glow with both rut and neurosis.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
The rumors that he did business with the Giacanos were I'm sure true. To what degree was up for debate. In the state of Louisiana, systemic venality is a given. The state's culture, mind-set, religious attitudes, and economics are no different from those of a Caribbean nation. The person who believes he can rise to a position of wealth and power in the state of Louisiana and not do business with the devil probably knows nothing about the devil and even less about Louisiana.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
The sky was purple, streaked with fire, the palm trees like scorched tin cutouts against the sun. I woke at four in the morning and could not sleep again, my heart congealed with a sense of mortality that I could not explain.
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James Lee Burke _ Crusader's Cross
Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice.
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