Quotes by Douglas Kennedy - Page 1

Words matter, words have import.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Imports
Matter
Words Matter
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There is much to be said for solitude.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Said
Solitude
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All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
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Stories
Unique
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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Embrace
Fragile
People
Ruins
Veneer
Success People Who
Success Is
Wary
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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Novelists
Serious
Want
Accessible
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
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Doubt
Individual
Accessible
Doubts
Graham
Individuals
Learnt
Sentient
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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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Adults
Forgiving
Parent
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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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Alive
Pay
Tragedy
Prices
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Accepted
Eight
Writing
Years
Bbc
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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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Space
Bird
Blue
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Thinking
Wounds
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Admitting
Facts
Horrific
Human Existence
Keys
Wondrous
Component
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Happiness
Ideas
Past
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Theme
Abide
Idea
Histories
Shaped
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Believe
Bridges
Healing
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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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Dodge
Hate
Lying
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
New York
Paris
Shade
Subway
Two
Writing
Corner
Underground
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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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Agony
Moments
Would Be
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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.
Douglas Kennedy / Novelist
Book
Fretting
Matter
Momentum
Writing
Time Great I Am
Gain
Intervene
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But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us.
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Darkness
Light
Profound
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