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She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

Denis Johnson
Jesus, Crazy, Hands
Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

Denis Johnson
Mother, Hurt, Jesus
Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Denis Johnson
Jesus, Book, Writing

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

Denis Johnson
Jesus, Silly, Writing

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