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Denis Johnson quotes: Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true
Denis Johnson quotes: Things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them. Things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
Denis Johnson quotes: We'd torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that We'd torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
Denis Johnson quotes: Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
Denis Johnson quotes: I knew every raindrop by its name. I knew every raindrop by its name.
Denis Johnson quotes: How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it. How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.
Denis Johnson quotes: Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across. Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across.
Denis Johnson quotes: What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there. What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.
Denis Johnson quotes: She took my heat. Traded it to the devil for some bauble. She took my heat. Traded it to the devil for some bauble.
Denis Johnson quotes: There was a part of her she hadn't yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place There was a part of her she hadn't yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
Denis Johnson quotes: And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
Denis Johnson quotes: Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood. Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.
Denis Johnson quotes: He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings. He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.
Denis Johnson quotes: A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the images in a slot machine. A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the images in a slot machine.
Denis Johnson quotes: We can't always tell the whole story about ourselves. We can't always tell the whole story about ourselves.
Denis Johnson quotes: The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive. The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson quotes: She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her. She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.
Denis Johnson quotes: His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop. His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop.
Denis Johnson quotes: Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it. Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.
Denis Johnson quotes: Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle. Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.
Denis Johnson quotes: [G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life. [G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.
Denis Johnson quotes: When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We
Denis Johnson quotes: When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him. When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.
Denis Johnson quotes: She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive. She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.
Denis Johnson quotes: We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell. We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.
Denis Johnson quotes: The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them. The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them.
Denis Johnson quotes: With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
Denis Johnson quotes: He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years. He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years.
Denis Johnson quotes: When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
Denis Johnson quotes: As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense. As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.
Denis Johnson quotes: To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity. To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.
Denis Johnson quotes: What could be lonelier than trying to communicate? What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?
Denis Johnson quotes: He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.
Denis Johnson quotes: There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out. There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
Denis Johnson quotes: I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening. I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening.
Denis Johnson quotes: I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson quotes: It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time. It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.
Denis Johnson quotes: Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hillspeople wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money. Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hills
people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.
Denis Johnson quotes: The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood. The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
Denis Johnson quotes: Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that? Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?
Denis Johnson quotes: The movie's not over till everybody's dead. The movie's not over till everybody's dead.
Denis Johnson quotes: This life is but the childhood of our immortality. This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
Denis Johnson quotes: Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
Denis Johnson quotes: Like all men you have a religion - at least a way of looking at yourself and the universe both at once, which is all I'd hope a religion to Like all men you have a religion - at least a way of looking at yourself and the universe both at once, which is all I'd hope a religion to be ...
Denis Johnson quotes: Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?" the doctor asked. "Help us, oh God, it hurts," the boxes of cotton screamed. "Not exactly," I said. Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?" the doctor asked.
"Help us, oh God, it hurts," the boxes of cotton screamed.
"Not exactly," I said.
Denis Johnson quotes: You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free. You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
Denis Johnson quotes: In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being. In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.
Denis Johnson quotes: And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
Denis Johnson quotes: After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy. After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
Denis Johnson quotes: There was nothing of his I wanted in particular. I wanted it all. There was nothing of his I wanted in particular. I wanted it all.
Denis Johnson quotes: Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison. Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.
Denis Johnson quotes: It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war. It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
Denis Johnson quotes: Write the unpublishable...and then publish it. Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.
Denis Johnson quotes: If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck. If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.
Denis Johnson quotes: You can't burgulate a forgotten, empty house, he said, horrified at my stupidity. You can't burgulate a forgotten, empty house, he said, horrified at my stupidity.
Denis Johnson quotes: All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Denis Johnson quotes: What a pair of lungs! What a pair of lungs!
Denis Johnson quotes: WE'RE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF REALITY ITSELF. RIGHT WHERE IT TURNS INTO A DREAM WE'RE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF REALITY ITSELF. RIGHT WHERE IT TURNS INTO A DREAM
Denis Johnson quotes: It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted. It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.
Denis Johnson quotes: Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be? Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?
Denis Johnson quotes: The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard. The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.
Denis Johnson quotes: She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her. She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her.
Denis Johnson quotes: Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows. Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.
Denis Johnson quotes: I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave. I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself.
Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.
Denis Johnson quotes: Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine. Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
Denis Johnson quotes: THE PEOPLE'S THIRST FOR FREEDOM HAS DRIVEN US TO DRINK BAD WATER. THE PEOPLE'S THIRST FOR FREEDOM HAS DRIVEN US TO DRINK BAD WATER.
Denis Johnson quotes: A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you? A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?
Denis Johnson quotes: The first time I didn't say anything, because she shot me in the mouth. The first time I didn't say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.
Denis Johnson quotes: You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric... You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...
Denis Johnson quotes: There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide. There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.
Denis Johnson quotes: Her midriff bare, like the denizen ... of some pampering seraglio. Her midriff bare, like the denizen ... of some pampering seraglio.
Denis Johnson quotes: English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
Denis Johnson quotes: He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other. He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
Denis Johnson quotes: Eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination. Eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.

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