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21 " iniquitous. "
― James Lee Burke , Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga, #1)
22 " We’re wayfaring strangers. We’re born alone, we die alone. "
23 " odium, "
24 " Straight shooters always win "
25 " Be your own man, even if you don’t add up to much. "
26 " I’ve killed men against whom I had no grievance. "
27 " It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable. "
28 " As flawed as Southern culture is, mendacity has always been treated in the South as a despicable characteristic. Notice how often Southerners casually address others as “you son of a bitch” with no insult intended. When the same person calls someone a “lying son of a bitch,” you know he’s serious. "
29 " The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica. "
30 " Deviants and monsters ran the camps where families were sent up the chimney or turned into bars of soap, but they would have been powerless without the clerks who sat anonymously behind typewriters and gave them bureaucratic legitimacy. "
31 " Roland "
32 " and sometimes throwing your own "
33 " speculation on the nature of creation is a luxury reserved for scholars. The rest of us have to deal with one another and ferret our way through the snares and pitfalls that we create for our fellow man. "
34 " I hope you enjoy Wayfaring Stranger. It’s the best book and the most biographical one I have written. "
35 " When people make mistakes, there’s usually a reason for it. These pork chops are something else.” She knew at that moment that Hershel Pine was probably the best human being she’d ever known. "
36 " If you get your ticket ripped in half, you do it in hot blood, and you do not go gently into that good night. "