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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

Topics: Admitting Both Component Existence Fact Horrific Human Human Existence Key Life Like Potential Things Wondrous

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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

Topics: Abide Come Happiness Histories Idea Other Past People Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Shaped Theme World You

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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

Topics: Accepted Decision Full Full Time Had Just Made Old Plays Radio Small Time Two Write Years Bbc

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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.

~Douglas Kennedy

Topics: Alive Always Being Ever Larger Pay Prices Tragedy Us

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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

Topics: Accessible Also Novelist Popular Serious Very Want

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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

Topics: Been Corner Find Go Known Little London New New York Paris Shade Subway Three Two Underground Work Write York I Can

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

~Douglas Kennedy

Topics: Celebrity Embrace Fragile Get People Ruins Success Success Is Veneer Very Wary Who

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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

Topics: About Am Bit Book Down Every Every Time Forward Fretting Gain Great Intervene Matter Momentum Novel Other Period Seems Starts Then Things Time Where Write I Am I Write

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

~Douglas Kennedy

Topics: Accessible Doubts Graham How Individuals Learnt Our Sentient Who Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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