Doug Dorst Quotes

#1. He is terrified, suddenly, that she will vanish again, that they will continue to age, and likely die, apart.

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#2. Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you.

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#3. He has been through too much - too much suffering, too much uncertainty, too much loss, too much trauma - to tolerate not being taken seriously.

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#4. - Maybe VMS is saying that nothing in the world is entirely one way or another.
- Or maybe it's about Sala. She's there, so he's supposed to be
for good or bad.
- I just don't buy that SOT is fundamentally a love story.
- I think you're wrong.

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#5. I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.

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#6. -It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.
-Because the reader changes.
-EXACTLY

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#7. A person is no more no less than the Story of his Passions Deeds.

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#8. They're not terrible people. They just couldn't be who I needed them to be.

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#9. -That's kind of sad.
-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.
-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.

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#10. Long day today,' she says.
'Every day's the same length, sweetie.

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#11. It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.

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#12. For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

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#13. There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative.

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#14. I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

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#15. Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.

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#16. Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the one who calls the orchestra's tunes, the one who is offered her choice of dance partners throughout the night.

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#17. They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter - these motes of opportunity forgone - to settle around them.

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#18. We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories
about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters
as a way to hide from how small we are.

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#19. A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

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#20. It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.

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#21. Everything you do means something about you.

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#22. He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament.

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#23. -Wow. So what are you living on?
-Not much. I've sold some things. It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

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#24. Time and circumstances change us ... and it is pointless to ask why.

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#25. When you fall in love, friends, let yourself fall.

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#26. I think it's love.'
'Funny.'
'I'm serious.'
'And your support for this is ... ?'
'A feeling.'
'You need more than that.

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#27. A kindred spirit? Perhaps
if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being.

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#28. We tried to tell him,' Toronto says.
'You made fun of him,' Mazzarella points out.
'That was how we tried to tell him.

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#29. The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

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#30. This is what happens, of course: men get lost, men vanish, men are erased and reborn.

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#31. He made his choices, over & over again. He's the one who could've said let's be together
none of this matters more than you, than us. And he didn't.

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#32. Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269

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#33. Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

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#34. If you can become anything, then you aren't anything. Right? Like there's some fundamental way in which the you of you doesn't exist anymore.

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#35. FXC arguing that love is what makes us most human - to deny it is to deny an essential part of your humanity.

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#36. What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

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#37. - I can't make choices like that without knowing who I am. Without knowing all the implications.
- You can't ever know in advance. Big decisions require faith.

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#38. They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.

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#39. If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.

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#40. Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

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#41. -I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do.

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#42. Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

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