Broke Quote by Denis Johnson

“With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.”

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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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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…

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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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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

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You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve.…

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If you sleep now tomorrow you will be broke, Work hard now and sleep later

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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

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