"Waking, after all, was an almost natal state.……" — Dennis Lehane
"Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present."
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69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane
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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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