Dennis Lehane Quotes

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Dennis Lehane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1965

Topics

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I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Jim Renacci

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I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Jodie Foster

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I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

Jennifer Lawrence

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If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

John Lithgow

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A book is a book is a book.

Maurice Sendak

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

Sonny Perdue

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If the response to 'Suite Francaise' is any indication, there's a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.

Sonny Mehta

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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