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  1. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    As flawed as Southern culture is, mendacity has always been treated in the South as a despicable characteristic. Notice how often Southerners casually address others as "you son of a bitch" with no insult intended. When the same person calls someone a "lying son of a bitch," you know he's serious.
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  2. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable.
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  3. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    If people stick together, they can always make do.
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  4. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    I've killed men against whom I had no grievance.
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  5. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    Be your own man, even if you don't add up to much.
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  6. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    Straight shooters always win
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  7. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    We're wayfaring strangers. We're born alone, we die alone.
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  8. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    Don't borrow trouble.
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  9. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    Wicked men do not go away of their own accord.
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  10. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    You don't realize the gift you have."
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  11. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now....... The woods in late autumn had become his private sun dappled cathedral, one that contained presences antithetical to the conventional notion of a church.
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  12. James Lee Burke _ Wayfaring Stranger

    Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it's the possibility that unseen elements lie just on the other side of the physical universe and that somehow we're actors on the stage of the Globe, right across the Thames from a place called Pissing Alley, whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe are aware of our presence or not.
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