"The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep.……" — Dennis Lehane
"The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?"
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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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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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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
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O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with…
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