"How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?"

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Source : James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

James Lee Burke

“No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.”
“We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment”
“The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.”
“I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.”
“The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”
“Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him”
“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.”
“I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way and very unique way of telling a story. And there's a lot to be learned from each country, and each language, and how they tell a story.”

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