"This life is but the childhood of our immortality."

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Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

Denis Johnson

#Childhood Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Immortality Quotes

“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“Charm" â€” which means the power to effect work without employing brute force â€” is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
“Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.”

Source : "Top Gear". TV Series, December 26, 2004.
“The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.”
“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.”
“I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.”
“The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.”

Source : Song: The Convo, 1998
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”

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