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Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

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Denis Johnson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 1
Died: 2017
Died: May 24
Actor
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Film Actor
Musician
Novelist
Playwright
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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München
Denis Hale Johnson
Dionysius Johnson
Dennis Johnson
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