"You've learned that every good lie is threaded……" — Dennis Lehane
"You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies."
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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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More Accepted Quotes
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
— Joe Biden
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
— Mary J. Blige
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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