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  1. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
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  2. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    No more pretending for him! He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
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  3. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.
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  4. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    The feeling that he was afraid of me was invigorating."
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  5. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    They ran a few syringesful into me, and I felt like I'd turned from a light, Styrofoam thing into a person. I held up my hands before my eyes. The hands were as still as a sculpture's.
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  6. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    There's nothing wrong with me"-I'm surprised I let those words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
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  7. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or completely horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.
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  8. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    I knew him, this John Smith. Once at a party he tried to sell me a gun, and later at the same party he made everyone quiet down for a few minutes because I was singing along with the radio, and he liked my voice.
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  9. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    I was a whimpering dog inside, nothing more than that. I looked for work because people seemed to believe I should look for work, and when I found a job I believed I was happy about it because these same people – counselors and Narcotics Anonymous members and such – seemed to think a job was a happy thing.
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  10. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    It was a long, narrow place, like a train car that wasn't going anywhere.
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  11. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was to consider that I must be the victim of a joke.
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  12. Denis Johnson _ Jesus' Son

    We stared at him and felt like old maids. He, on the other hand, was the bride of Death.
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