"Which would be worse, to live as a……" — Dennis Lehane
"Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?"
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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