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| cc768be | He had been humiliated and treated like the white trash he was. Under the bedsheet that hides the identity of every Ku Klux Klansman is a cretinous, vicious, and childlike human being whose last holdout is his whites-only restroom. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 92d806b | There are those who are made different in the womb. | James Lee Burke | ||
| fb0e466 | the only argument you ever win is the one you don't have. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 27cb27b | Maybe you've been there. You go into a police or sheriff's station after a gang of black kids forced you to stop your car while they smashed out your windows with garbage cans; a strung-out addict made you kneel at gunpoint on the floor of a grocery store, and before you knew it the begging words rose uncontrollably in your throat; some bikers pulled you from the back of a bar and sat on your arms while one of them unzippered his blue jeans.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5fdce5d | I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 1f289bf | 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. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 4074cda | If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the whole world waiting for you like an enormous dance pavilion lit by colored lights and surrounded with palm trees. I'm not talking about the dirty boogie. The music of the spheres is right outside your bedroom window. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 80af539 | At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself--the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise? | James Lee Burke | ||
| fe615a5 | soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7c2e0d2 | You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants," Segura said." -- | James Lee Burke | ||
| 3f79046 | of the story showed the four brain-destroyed women Linda Gail had shown me. The grainy transfer of the images to newsprint had made them even more macabre. The story had come off the wire in Los Angeles and was written by a gossip columnist who quoted other gossip columnists as the story's source. The details were bizarre and prurient and unbelievable, in the way of stories from True Detective, Argosy, Saga, and Male, and because they were .. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c516589 | Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c17e124 | Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 55fd3d5 | I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams. | James Lee Burke | ||
| b91c356 | Then she walked away, like Helen of Troy turning her back on Attica. A gust of warm wind blew newspapers along the boulevard into the sky. The light was orange and bleeding out of the clouds in the west, the horizon darkening, the waves crashing on the beach just the other side of Seawall Boulevard, the palm trees rattling dryly in the wind. I could smell the salt and the seaweed and the tiny shellfish that had dried on the beach, like the .. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 318d428 | What happens outside of us doesn't count. That's something we don't have control over. It's what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that's important. | James Lee Burke | ||
| dc19120 | Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his yard and the dark green wetness of the fescue part of a song that was never supposed to die. Except he could feel things ending, coming apart at the center, and he didn't know why. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5d3e2c1 | Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a95bf05 | You just got sprung." "Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked. "Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 20eb23d | Varina was breathing hard through her nose, her face pinched, not unlike a child's. "You don't know how mad you can make people," she said. "I had tender feelings for you once, whether you knew it or not. But you're a shit, Dave Robicheaux." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 1813ab2 | But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c444ec5 | I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail. | James Lee Burke | ||
| d511703 | Albert never told anyone of what the guard did to him. But sometimes he smells the guard's stink in his sleep, a combination of chewing tobacco and hair oil and testosterone and dried sweat that had been ironed with starch into the clothes...Albert has always wanted to believe this emblematic moment in his life was regional in origin, born out of ignorance and fear and redneck cruelty, perhaps one even precipitated by his own recklessness, .. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7da4f22 | 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. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a0c1f87 | It turns out that Clark's Nutcrackers use a highly sophisticated form of triangulation to determine cache locations. When they make a cache they visually locate two landscape features in order to triangulate their cache. | Stephen Harrod Buhner | ||
| 8b8b034 | Aqui, tanto no espaco, como no tempo, parecemos ter sido trazidos para um pouco mais perto desse grande facto - o misterio dos misterios -, o aparecimento pela primeira vez, de novos seres nesta Terra. | conspiracy darwin john-darnton | John Darnton | |
| 1363bd4 | Gli scrittori di oggi, e ci sono anch'io fra quelli, hanno la tendenza a mettere in risalto l'avvilimento dello spirito, e Dio solo sa quanto spesso la cosa avvenga. Ma quando, qualche volta, questo non succede, e come se si accendesse un faro davanti a noi. E a tale proposito voglio dedicare un momento per spiegare come stanno le cose. A dispetto dei sorrisini provenienti dai sudisti della "Cintura delle Nevrosi" e dagli scrittori , sono .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 783c61b | IN THE SMALL Ohio town where I grew up, many homes had parlors that contained pianos, sideboards, and sofas, heavy objects signifying gentility. These pianos were rarely tuned. They went flat in summer around the Fourth of July and sharp in winter at Christmas. Ours was a Story and Clark. On its music stand were copies of Stephen Foster and Ethelbert Nevin favorites, along with one Chopin prelude that my mother would practice for twenty min.. | Charles Baxter | ||
| 921e5b0 | This is probably the most annoying thing of all to the French. Not only do we pronounce the battles incorrectly (Crecy should be 'Cray-see' and Waterloo 'Watt-air-loh'), with Agincourt ('Ah-zan-coor') we even get the spelling wrong. | Stephen Clarke | ||
| 1dcf2f3 | James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books), | Stephen Clarke | ||
| 488c74e | Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English. | humour philippe-vi | Stephen Clarke | |
| 09d4be7 | Do you," he murmured, "do you have any - Smarties? You brought some once, I remember, in a tube with a lid on. They were small, and many-coloured - all different colors - and they tasted very good." | Amanda Hemingway | ||
| 5243df2 | I gather we're old friends." "By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years." | friendship | Amanda Hemingway | |
| d8a2ffb | Turning back to Salta, he reappeared at the hospital and was asked by the staff what he had seen on his journey. "In truth, what do I see?" he reflected. "At least I am not nourished in the same ways as the tourists, and I find it strange to find, on the tourist brochures of Jujuy, for example, the Altar of the Fatherland, the cathedral where the national ensign was blessed, the jewel of the pulpit and the miraculous little virgin of Rio Bl.. | Jon Lee Anderson | ||
| 93c23c4 | She lived and breathed the streets, and would lay her neck on the line to protect its occupants. But how did she tell an idealist that the world was not black and white? | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 5f05c76 | The most well known theory concerning the whereabouts of the Ark, made famous by the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, places it in the ruins of the ancient city of Tanis in Egypt. This theory proposes that the Ark was plundered by the Egyptians shortly after Solomon's death. According to the Old Testament, the pharaoh Sheshonq I of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, raided the Temple, and plundered its treasures (1 Kgs 14:26). Sheshonq I established T.. | Graham Phillips | ||
| c7a48ec | Returning to a city that one has known and loved fills you with a delicious sense of warmth. | Tahir Shah | ||
| dfbc2d9 | Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. --MOROCCAN PROVERB | Tahir Shah | ||
| 22cd413 | I take reeds from the river that have been nurtured by fresh water and grown in good soil, and I turn them into baskets, a product that has so many uses. I know how to make baskets from something so simple because my father taught me, and his father taught him. "Make baskets of your own," he would say, "make them all kinds of shapes and colors. But never forget that your baskets are made of something that is there for anyone to cut and use... | Tahir Shah | ||
| 6f36dea | Morocco, the lack of safety was an energizing force, but at the same time it was a constant concern. I had seen more accidents than I could count: car wrecks with people half dead lying on the ground, building sites where workmen had tumbled from scaffolding, children maimed by fireworks on a Sunday afternoon. For the first time in my life I became completely alert. In the West, you can drift from day to day in the knowledge that the societ.. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 60305ab | Sure, I've gotten some disbelieving stares when I've tried to explain this little habit of mine to, say, a bus seatmate. I've watched a guy adjust his posture, or get up and move back several rows, even if it meant he now sat next to someone else who was clearly on the verge of some other kind of insanity. | Steve Martin | ||
| 9fe3159 | All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen. | Steve Martin | ||
| 72d52c8 | Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations. She presents a resume, fills out an application, waits, and finally makes a call to see if she got the job. Usually, a confused secretary will answer and say that the position had been filled weeks ago. This aimlessness in presenting herself contributes to her feeling of b.. | Steve Martin | ||
| cc91db7 | These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result of all this thinking is that he now understands that he doesn't know what he is doing or where he is going. | Steve Martin |