Denis Johnson Short Quotes

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Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.

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The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

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English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

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There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.

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With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

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After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

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We'd torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

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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.

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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.

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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.

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They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.

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I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

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That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

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All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

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The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he'd been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

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