Doug Dorst

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst

“I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some…

— Doug Dorst

“Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you…

— Doug Dorst

“It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd…

— Doug Dorst

“FXC arguing that love is what makes us most human - to deny it is to deny an essential part of your…

— Doug Dorst

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

— Doug Dorst

“The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious—it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly…

— Doug Dorst

“You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live…

— Doug Dorst

“You can't just whistle and summon sense and order back into your mind. All you can do is button your coat, lace…

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“- Maybe VMS is saying that nothing in the world is entirely one way or another. - Or maybe it's about Sala.…

— Doug Dorst

Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the…

— Doug Dorst

“Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom”

— Doug Dorst

“-That's kind of sad. -I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide…

— Doug Dorst

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

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“Everything you do means something about you.”

— Doug Dorst

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

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“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the…

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“-Wow. So what are you living on? -Not much. I've sold some things. It's not a bad way to live once you…

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

— Doug Dorst

“There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative.”

— Doug Dorst

“Comfortable alone and easily overlooked. A kindred spirit? Perhaps--if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort…

— Doug Dorst

“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one…

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“Long day today,' she says. 'Every day's the same length, sweetie.”

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

— Doug Dorst

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

— Doug Dorst