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  1. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed-pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.
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  2. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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  3. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.
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  4. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.
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  5. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    But as William Faulkner said, and as I was about to learn, the past is not only still with us, the past is not even the past. The warning call from Wally,
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  6. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    one of the basic tenets of A.A.-that there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably
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  7. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position.
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  8. James Lee Burke _ Pegasus Descending

    Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum."
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