Top 37 Douglas Kennedy Quotes
#1. We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.
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#2. Hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time
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#3. Money. The trickiest substance in life
as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies. Money: the essential lie.
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#4. But can you ever excise a bad parent? Though you might come to terms with all that they have psychologically bequeathed you, they can never really be expunged. They're the stubborn, permanent stain that will never entirely vanish in the wash.
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#5. Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
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#6. Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.
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#7. I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
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#8. We all end up ruing everything. It's the nature of this thing we call 'our condition.' Could, but didn't ... Wanted to, but stopped myself ... All the damn statements of regret we can never dodge.
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#9. We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')
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#10. At dawn, nothing seems certain ... yet everything appears possible.
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#11. Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary
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#12. The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.
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#13. We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
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#14. We seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ...
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#15. I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?
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#16. There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.
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#17. Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.
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#18. All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.
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#19. Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
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#20. Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
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#21. The perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.
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#22. From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
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#24. The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
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#25. All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
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#26. If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
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#27. But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby
and the baby of you
and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time ... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.
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#28. I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
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#29. Biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.
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#30. With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
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#31. There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...
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#32. The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
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#33. Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you. And when they too vanish ...
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#34. We can rarely tell others what we really think about them
not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.
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#36. Discipline is all about the imposition of control-the belief that, by following a precise regime and avoiding distractions, you can somehow keep the disorder of life at bay.
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#37. We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.
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