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Top 25 Douglas Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “Words matter, words have import.”

1. “Words matter, words have import.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

2. “The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It’s the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.”

7. “Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It’s the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren’t they?”

8. “All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren’t they?”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.”

10. “From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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...”

12. “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...”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “There is much to be said for solitude.”

15. “There is much to be said for solitude.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.”

17. “Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.”

18. “Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.”

19. “At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “I want to be a popular novelist who’s also serious, or a serious novelist who’s also very accessible.”

20. “I want to be a popular novelist who’s also serious, or a serious novelist who’s also very accessible.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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?”

24. “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?”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.”

26. “All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.”

— Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy Quote: “Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?”

27. “Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?”

— Douglas Kennedy

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