"Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's……" — Dennis Lehane
"Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew."
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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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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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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 Dependence Quotes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners…
— Fred Allen
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the…
— John Ciardi
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India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian…
— Hillary Clinton
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
— George Washington
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In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying…
— Jimmy Carter
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our…
— John Stott
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for…
— Rajneesh
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