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James Lee Burke

"Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God."

Source : James Lee Burke (2007). “Jesus Out to Sea: Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

James Lee Burke

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Blood Quotes

“I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.”
“In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.”
“The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.”
“[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.”
“I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.”

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“There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.”

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“With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?”
“We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.”

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