Doug Dorst famous quotes

We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are.
-- Doug Dorst

#Life #Believe #Character

Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.
-- Doug Dorst

#Girl #Kindness #Believe

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
-- Doug Dorst

#Monkeys

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.
-- Doug Dorst

#Water #Ends

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

#Passion #Stories #Deeds

I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.
-- Doug Dorst

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.
-- Doug Dorst

#Believe #Doe #Who You Are

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.
-- Doug Dorst

#Circumstances #Pointless

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.