"Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction.……" — Dennis Lehane
"Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand."
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69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane has 69 quotes on this site.
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Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside…
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He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead…
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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you…
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls…
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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
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Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad…
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of…
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I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap…
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More Faux Quotes
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one of 39 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival…
— Unknown Author
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a…
— Raymond Chandler
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all…
— Peter Thiel
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There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it…
— Neil Strauss
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A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself.
— Loulou de la Falaise
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Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some…
— Harvey Mackay
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In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The…
— Kristen Johnston
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I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really…
— Joe Jonas
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I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to…
— Bonnie Hunt
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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all…
— Cliff Martinez
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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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