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From Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something…
- When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from…
- All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the…
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