Quotes by Dennis Lehane

About Dennis Lehane:

Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, his fourth, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted as a 2007 film by the same name.
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Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

Dennis Lehane

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the s...

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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

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It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of...

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Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus.

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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 of what one is.

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That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

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Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or i...

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Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

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Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

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.. he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world wou...

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As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.

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Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

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Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

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- Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need. - Why is that? - What’s that, Marshal? - The full moon. You think it makes people crazy? - I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and use...

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The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took

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Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

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I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’t the least understandable thing you can do.

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How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

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Author Bio

  • NameDennis Lehane
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornAugust 4, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Screenwriter
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award; Edgar Award