Quotes by James Carlos Blake

About James Carlos Blake:

James Carlos Blake is an American writer of novels, novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. He has been called “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” as well as “one of the most original writers in America today and … certainly one of the bravest.” He is a recipient of the University of South Florida's Distinguished Humanities Alumnus Award and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
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The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.

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He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

James Carlos Blake

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

James Carlos Blake

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

James Carlos Blake

Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and say hand it over and there's no telling what's going to h...

James Carlos Blake

I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guys who own the banks and insurance companies and stock...

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A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

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If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

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The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.

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You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.

James Carlos Blake

When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in ord...

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If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.

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He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

James Carlos Blake

The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal...

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There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

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Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

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The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

James Carlos Blake

Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, “Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of...

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Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

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The notion that we've made vast moral progress and are now a less violent species is belied by our awesome powers of destruction, our military might, police forces as well-armed as soldiers. Without the threat of such violent force behind it, all law...

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Author Bio

  • NameJames Carlos Blake
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 26, 1947