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James Lee Burke, né le 5 décembre 1936 à Houston au Texas, est un écrivain américain de romans policiers. Lauréat de nombreux prix littéraires, il est particulièrement connu pour sa série mettant en scène le shérif Dave Robicheaux. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. décembre 1936  •  Autres noms جيمس بيرك
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James Lee Burke: Citations en anglais

“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”

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James Lee Burke livre Pegasus Descending

Source: Pegasus Descending

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

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James Lee Burke

Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

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James Lee Burke

Source: The Glass Rainbow

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

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James Lee Burke

Source: Swan Peak

“I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.”

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James Lee Burke

“One day you'll have a quiet heart.”

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James Lee Burke

The Neon Rain

“Morpheus' gifts used to come to me in bottles, Beam and black Jack Daniel's, straight up with a frosted schooner of Jax on the side, while the rain poor down in the neon glow outside the window of an all-night bar not far from the Huey Long Bridge. In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry.”

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James Lee Burke

A Morning for Flamingos (1990)

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