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Douglas Kennedy has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone…
• Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue.…
• We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to…
• We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it…
• 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…
• The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted…
• Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing…
• 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

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