"Grief, he said, is carnivorous." — Dennis Lehane
"Grief, he said, is carnivorous."
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69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane
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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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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
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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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More Carnivorous Quotes
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food…
— Gautama Buddha
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
— Francis Picabia
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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so…
— Dalai Lama
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Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat…
— Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
— Emile Faguet
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