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Dennis Lehane 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.

Lehane's novels adapted as films included Mystic River , with a 2003 film by the same name, directed by Clint Eastwood, which won several awards. Shutter Island was adapted as a 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. August 1965
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A Drink Before the War
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Famous Dennis Lehane Quotes

“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.”

Dennis Lehane book Gone, Baby, Gone

Source: Gone, Baby, Gone

“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.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“Everyone sees different things.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”

Dennis Lehane book Sacred

Source: Sacred

Dennis Lehane Quotes about people

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

Dennis Lehane book Moonlight Mile

Source: Moonlight Mile

“People surprise you sometimes.”

Dennis Lehane book Sacred

Sacred

“Wickham is not an upwardly mobile community. It's dingy and gray as only a mill town can be. The streets are the color of a shoe bottom, and the only way to tell the difference between the bars and the homes is to look for the neon signs in the windows. The roads and sidewalks are uneven, the tar cracked and pale. Many of the people, especially the workers as they trudge home from the mills in the dying light, have the look of those who've long ago gotten used to the fact that no one remembers them. It's a place where the people are grateful for the seasons, because at least they confirm that time is actually moving on.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Source: A Drink Before the War (1994), Ch. 8.

Dennis Lehane Quotes

“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

Source: The Given Day

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

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

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

Dennis Lehane book Mystic River

Source: Mystic River

“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?”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“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.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Source: A Drink Before the War

“How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”

Dennis Lehane book Mystic River

Source: Mystic River

“It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Source: A Drink Before the War

“What molds us is what maims us.”

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

Source: The Given Day

“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“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.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“Hate came in a maelstrom, and we called it several things—racism, pedophilia, justice, righteousness—but all those words were just ribbons and wrapping paper on a soiled gift that no one wanted to open.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Prologue.
A Drink Before the War (1994)

“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.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Source: A Drink Before the War (1994), Ch. 7.

“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum.”

Dennis Lehane book A Drink Before the War

Source: A Drink Before the War (1994), Ch. 2.

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