Douglas Kennedy Quotes
- The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is much to be said for solitude.
- We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,…
- 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.
- Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
- Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
- From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
- Crying is self-pity and self-pity gets you no where