Friendship Quote by Denis Johnson

“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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“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.”

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“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four directions, low and terrifying, rumbling up from the ground beneath the floor, and it gathered into a roar that sucked at the hearing itself, and coalesced…

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“Everything is arranged," John Robertson told me. Thank God." I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem," he said. Okay..." Evidently it seems Winston Holder has already left this morning to the border and Gbarnga. He took a journalist in." A journalist? Who?" I don't know who. They thought it must be you." But it wasn't…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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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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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

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“Who said it? – probably Confucius – “I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of…

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“A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the…

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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

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Friends are like stars you can't always see them, but you know they're there.

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I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

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“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad wrecks through my life, date after bad date after bad boyfriend. She was the one who'd picked up the pieces after the musician, the investment banker, the humanitarian who was human to everyone but me. When…

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