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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. .Dennis Lehane
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I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.Dennis Lehane
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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.Dennis Lehane
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It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of fire hydrant bodies, just waiting for someone stupid enough to stall traffic on their street.Dennis Lehane
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Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.Dennis Lehane
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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.Dennis Lehane
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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.Dennis Lehane