"Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God."

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Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.25, Macmillan

Denis Johnson

#Lying Quotes #Giving Quotes #Bars Quotes

“Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.”
“I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.”
“I wish I had more confidence.”
“Patience is moral elasticity.”
“I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."”
“To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.”
“Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.”
“Both my parents were big readers.”

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