Truth Quote by Denis Johnson

““There’s been a lie told. I’ve told it. I’m going to let the truth reclaim me. If I can’t survive that process, so be it.””

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“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.”

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“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.”

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