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> [“He was so entranced, he was so charmed, so captivated-rolled out flat, dreamed into, shone upon-that when she said his name, English started to live.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-was-so-entranced-he-was-so-charmed-so-captivated-rolled-out-flat/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

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## More by Denis Johnson

> [“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/you-ve-never-felt-good-your-suffering-protects-you-pain-is-the-ransom/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-had-laid-his-head-back-until-his-scalp-had-contacted-his-spine/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“Everything is arranged," John Robertson told me. Thank God." I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem," he said. Okay..."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/everything-is-arranged-john-robertson-told-me-thank-god-i-forgot-to/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/before-this-moment-i-d-lived-as-a-mind-body-heart-soul-intellect-so/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-got-right-down-in-the-dark-between-heartbeats-and-rested-there-and/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/i-d-been-staying-at-the-holiday-inn-with-my-girlfriend-honestly-the/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/all-of-this-while-i-left-lifted-by-a-strange-new-medium-a-strange/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-didn-t-know-what-country-he-was-in-but-he-was-at-home-in-the/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/there-s-a-dizzying-thrill-in-a-philosophy-that-can-only-be-tested-by/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/i-really-enjoy-writing-novels-it-s-like-the-ocean-you-can-just-build/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“Who said it? – probably Confucius – “I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/who-said-it-probably-confucius-i-can-t-beat-a-sculpture-from-a-stone/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/a-bus-came-i-climbed-aboard-and-sat-on-the-plastic-seat-while-the/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [I knew every raindrop by its name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/i-knew-every-raindrop-by-its-name/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/to-find-the-people-who-ve-became-truly-sane-seek-among-those-who-ve/)

[Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/)

> [“eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/eventually-these-encounters-forced-him-to-acknowledge-the-reality-of/)

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