Denis Johnson Quotes

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• She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give… Birth
• How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's… Been
• Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine… Asian
• I knew every raindrop by its name. Every Raindrop
• 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… Crazy
• 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 name,… Accused
• I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a… Across
• Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… Any
• 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… Away Layer
• 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 it.… Another Human
• Death is the mother of beauty. Beauty
• This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling… Cup
• 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… All
• Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine. Bullet
• Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… Alive
• 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… All
• English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. Empty
• I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening. Draw
• Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,… Burst
• 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… Body

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