"It's hard to close the door on optimistic……" — Dennis Lehane

"It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone."

— Dennis Lehane

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69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside…
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead…
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you…
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls…
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad…
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of…
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,… — Lauren Bacall
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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