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We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.
Denis Johnson
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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
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München
Denis Hale Johnson
Dionysius Johnson
Dennis Johnson
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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
Denis Johnson
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?
Denis Johnson
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the Ten Thousand Things? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?
Denis Johnson
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.
Denis Johnson
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
Denis Johnson
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
Denis Johnson
She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.
Denis Johnson
That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?
Denis Johnson
There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
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The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.
Denis Johnson
Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
Denis Johnson
The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson
The movie's not over till everybody's dead.
Denis Johnson
Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.
Denis Johnson
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
Denis Johnson
I knew every raindrop by its name.
Denis Johnson
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Denis Johnson
This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
Denis Johnson
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.
Denis Johnson
