"In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God."

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Source : James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

James Lee Burke

#Dream Quotes #Past Quotes #Light Quotes

“If you're not dead, God's not done.”

Source : "Perry Noble Shares Proverbs 24:16 for People Struggling With Addiction: 'God's Not Done'" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. November 23, 2016.
“By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.”

Source : "For Mackenzie Phillips, drugs overshadowed promising career". www.cnn.com. September 25, 2009.
“I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.”

Source : "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.
“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
“You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.”
“I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.”
“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.”

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