"Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty……" — Dennis Lehane
"Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own."
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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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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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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try…
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards…
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws…
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I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the…
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