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Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, his fourth, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name.

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This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Enough, Give, Giving, Long, Reminders, World

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Depression, Hope, Lack, Like, Numbness, Weary

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

Carnivorous, Grief, Said

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

Bad Day, Book, Catch, Day, Good Day, Written

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

Blood, Family, Kind, Love, Love You, Mean

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?. . . Gods don’t think they can become men

Become, Differences, Gods, Men, Think, Thinking

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Believe, Language, Levels, Making, Primacy

It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

Boys, Dream, Philosophical, Thought, Three

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Bars, Journalism, Load, Took, Use, Writing

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Fall, Greek, Heights, Tragedy

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

Aggravates, Mean, Necessary, Simple, Stop, World

He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.

Heart, Love, Pleasure, Sight, Sound

I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.

Certain, Enough, Gun, Say, Would Be

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Core, Develops, Hang, Hanging Out, Maybe

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Faux, Fiction, I Can, Literary, Stand

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Difference, Differences, Hard Work, Luck, Make, Work

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Affected, Everything, Gets, Our Lives, Thread

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

Loyalty, Ornaments, Sacred, Suspect, Think, Thinking

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

Creative, Entering, Happen, People, Thing

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

Angry, Bumper, Eye, Forty, Girl, Kids

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