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• I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

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• It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.

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  Writing, Simple, Secret

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

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  Fiction, Faux, I Can

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Everyone sees different things.

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  Different, Different Things

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• The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

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  Pain, Heart, Sleep

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• Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

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  Real, Hate, Winning

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• What molds us is what maims us.

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  Mold

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

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  Mean, Simple, World

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• Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

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  Past, Order, Waking

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

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  Smell, Asking, Want

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

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  Men, Good Man, Monsters

  "Shutter Island". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

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  Animal, Choices, Always Believe

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Gone, Baby, Gone”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Gun, Would Be, Enough

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• ... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

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  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Mystic River”, p.145, Hachette UK

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

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  Hanging Out, Core

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

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  Depression, Numbness, Weary

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• I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.

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  Christian, Rain, Believe

  Dennis Lehane (2011). “A Drink Before The War”, p.166, Random House

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Thinking, Ornaments

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• When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

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  Wise, Children, Sheep

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• That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

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  Reality, Thinking, Victim

  Dennis Lehane (2011). “A Drink Before The War”, p.46, Random House

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• Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

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  Grief, Heart, Cutting

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• 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.

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  Writing, Bars, Use

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• If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.

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  Fall, Winning, Insane Person

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• I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

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  Unique, Voice, Way

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• But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

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  Eye, Thinking, Often Is

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