Lucius Shepard
Born
in Lynchburg, Virginia, The United States
August 01, 1947
Died
March 18, 2014
Website
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Life During Wartime
28 editions
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1987
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The Golden
25 editions
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published
1993
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Jaguar Hunter
29 editions
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1987
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The Dragon Griaule
11 editions
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published
2012
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Green Eyes
25 editions
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published
1984
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A Handbook of American Prayer
10 editions
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published
2004
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The Ends Of The Earth
9 editions
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published
1991
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The Best of Lucius Shepard
4 editions
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published
2008
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The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter
2 editions
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published
1988
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Kalimantan
13 editions
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1990
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“When the tragedies of others become for us diversions, sad stories with which to enthrall our friends, interesting bits of data to toss out at cocktail parties, a means of presenting a pose of political concern, or whatever…when this happens we commit the gravest of sins, condemn ourselves to ignominy, and consign the world to a dangerous course. We begin to justify our casual overview of pain and suffering by portraying ourselves as do-gooders incapacitated by the inexorable forces of poverty, famine, and war. “What can I do?” we say, “I’m only one person, and these things are beyond my control. I care about the world’s trouble, but there are no solutions.” Yet no matter how accurate this assessment, most of us are relying on it to be true, using it to mask our indulgence, our deep-seated lack of concern, our pathological self-involvement.”
― The Best of Lucius Shepard
― The Best of Lucius Shepard
“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness, nothing he cared to know about the someone in charge of death and butterflies, he let himself go spiraling down past layers of darkness and shining wings, darkness and mystical light, and a memory of pain so bright that it became a white darkness wherein he lost all track of being.”
― Life During Wartime
― Life During Wartime
“The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events in some border hell.”
― Life During Wartime
― Life During Wartime
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