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Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true
— Denis Johnson
We'd torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
— Denis Johnson
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
— Denis Johnson
I knew every raindrop by its name.
— Denis Johnson
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
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
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
She took my heat. Traded it to the devil for some bauble.
— Denis Johnson
There was a part of her she hadn't yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
— Denis Johnson
And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
— Denis Johnson
Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.
— Denis Johnson
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
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
We can't always tell the whole story about ourselves.
— Denis Johnson
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
With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
— Denis Johnson
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
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
His eyeballs look like he bought them in a joke shop.
— Denis Johnson
Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.
— Denis Johnson
Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.
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[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
She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.
— Denis Johnson
We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.
— Denis Johnson
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
— Denis Johnson
As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.
— Denis Johnson
To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.
— Denis Johnson
What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?
— Denis Johnson
He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.
— Denis Johnson
There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
— Denis Johnson
I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening.
— Denis Johnson
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
— Denis Johnson
It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.
— Denis Johnson
Maybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hillspeople wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money. — Denis Johnson
The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
— Denis Johnson
Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?
— Denis Johnson
The movie's not over till everybody's dead.
— Denis Johnson
This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
— Denis Johnson
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
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
You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
— Denis Johnson
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.
— Denis Johnson
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
— Denis Johnson
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
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
Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.
— Denis Johnson
If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.
— Denis Johnson
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
What a pair of lungs!
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It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.
— Denis Johnson
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
The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.
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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
Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.
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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
Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
— Denis Johnson
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
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
— Conor Oberst
You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...
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