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Book: The Neon Rain
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
Gamblers and lovers pay big dues and enjoy limited consolations. But sometimes they are enough.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better," I said.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
You pull on dat 'gator's tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants," Segura said."
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek next to your head, its eyes resting, its wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in your ear.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
One day you'll have a quiet heart.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.
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James Lee Burke _ The Neon Rain
The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary."
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