Dixie City Jam Quotes

“It’s funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth’s old dance through the heavens.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“Cruelty and sentimentality are almost always companion characteristics in an individual but never cruelty and love.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“you have ever been in psychoanalysis or analytically oriented therapy, you’re aware that the exploration of one’s own unconscious can be an intriguing pursuit. It is also self-inflating, grandiose, and endless, and often has the same practical value as meditating upon one’s genitalia.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“Cletus Purcel.” “What’s wrong with Clete?” “What’s right with him?” “Give it a break, Lucinda.” “He tried to turn somebody into a human bell clapper. Do you know a character by the name of Dogshit Dolowitz?” “No Duh Dolowitz, the merry prankster?” “Yeah, I guess he’s called that, too. Your friend crammed a garbage can over his head, then pounded the can all over an alley with a baseball bat.” “What for?” “Ask him . . . Wait a minute.” She set the phone down and closed a door. “Listen, Detective, Nate Baxter would like to put your buddy’s ham hocks in a skillet. I’d have a serious talk with him.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“But I was falling prey to that old self-serving notion that well-intended rhetoric can remove a stone bruise from the soul.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“His round, pink face was smiling and happy, his green eyes lighted with an alcoholic shine.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam

“Advice might be cheap, but there is nothing facile about the faith of those to whom we give it.”
― James Lee Burke, Dixie City Jam