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I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

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Dennis Lehane
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 4
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What molds us is what maims us.
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I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
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Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men
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I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
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I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
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