Doug Dorst Quotes

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

He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament. ~ Doug Dorst

- Maybe VMS is saying that nothing in the world is entirely one way or another.
- Or maybe it's about Sala. She's there, so he's supposed to be
for good or bad.
- I just don't buy that SOT is fundamentally a love story.
- I think you're wrong. ~ Doug Dorst

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive. ~ Doug Dorst

A kindred spirit? Perhaps
if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being. ~ Doug Dorst

Dr Brand talked about the difference between belief and expectation. As in: it's good to BELIEVE that our efforts are likely to bring positive results, but it's another thing entirely to EXPECT that they will. We can't demand a particular outcome; we're not entitled to any particular outcome. It's the expectation that makes us so miserable when things go wrong. ~ Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

He has been through too much - too much suffering, too much uncertainty, too much loss, too much trauma - to tolerate not being taken seriously. ~ Doug Dorst

It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was. ~ Doug Dorst

Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whether what he is sensing is a fragment of memory, a fragment of an idea of a memory, or something his mind, desperate for connections, has created on its own. ~ Doug Dorst

-I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do. ~ Doug Dorst

We tried to tell him,' Toronto says.
'You made fun of him,' Mazzarella points out.
'That was how we tried to tell him. ~ Doug Dorst

- I can't make choices like that without knowing who I am. Without knowing all the implications.
- You can't ever know in advance. Big decisions require faith. ~ Doug Dorst

He made his choices, over & over again. He's the one who could've said let's be together
none of this matters more than you, than us. And he didn't. ~ Doug Dorst

There is the possibility of a happy ending. ~ Doug Dorst

FXC arguing that love is what makes us most human - to deny it is to deny an essential part of your humanity. ~ Doug Dorst

Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving. ~ Doug Dorst

Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the one who calls the orchestra's tunes, the one who is offered her choice of dance partners throughout the night. ~ Doug Dorst

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.
-Because the reader changes.
-EXACTLY ~ Doug Dorst

They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter - these motes of opportunity forgone - to settle around them. ~ Doug Dorst

-That's kind of sad.
-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.
-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me. ~ Doug Dorst

You can't just whistle and summon sense and order back into your mind. All you can do is button your coat, lace your boots, and trudge through the frigid business of being. ~ Doug Dorst

This," he says, "is precisely what campfires are for. The sharing of stories. There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative."

S. nods. He understands Stenfalk's proposition intuitively; we create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over others, over ourselves. ~ Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

The story you walk into, he has learned, is always more complex than it first appears. ~ Doug Dorst

Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269 ~ Doug Dorst

Long day today,' she says.
'Every day's the same length, sweetie. ~ Doug Dorst

I know the you who's in the margins. I know you're thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you've tried harder to understand me than anyone has in a long time. ~ Doug Dorst

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

I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in. ~ Doug Dorst

Everything you do means something about you. ~ Doug Dorst

Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you. ~ Doug Dorst

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

He threads a hook, re-sews his mouth, cuts off the thread-tails with the razor blade. It's a simple task, no more difficult than shaving. He can do it in the dark. He can do it in a thirty-knot wind and seven-foot seas. He can do it in his sleep, and he probably has.
(Margin note in reference to excerpt above:) "Per Dr. B: it's easy to get used to doing things that are harmful to ourselves- do it often enough + it becomes ordinary/habitual- just how you live. ~ Doug Dorst

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

Jen- I have to tell you - I haven't said this before but I've wanted to + now I want to say it all the time: I LOVE YOU. I love you on the page + I love you in the library + in the coffee shop + in the last row of the Varsity. I love you here. I love you in negitive space - ok, i don't know exactly what that means but i'm pretty sure its true - + I love who you have been + who you will be. I should say this to you in person, and i'm going to - over & over - but I think I needed to say it here first. Jennifer Heyward, I love you. ~ Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

They're not terrible people. They just couldn't be who I needed them to be. ~ Doug Dorst

The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious - it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly free, and he is being guided along gracefully, lovingly, by the hand of Nature - and it frees him, however transiently, from all worry and fear and fury and grief. 'I enjoyed that,' he says aloud, as much to the stars as to the rower. ~ Doug Dorst

He is terrified, suddenly, that she will vanish again, that they will continue to age, and likely die, apart. ~ Doug Dorst

The creation of art requires descent into the dark. ~ Doug Dorst

If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will be a much bigger success than you otherwise would have been. There truly is POWER in words ... ~ Doug Dohring

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. ~ Doug Davidson

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose. ~ Doug Larson

When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics. ~ Doug Martsch

If I say f*** the government, some will clap because they agree and some will clap just because you said f***. I've had countless audience members offer me free drugs but I also got free hernia surgery. ~ Doug Stanhope

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. ~ Doug Larson

It was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be "in the mud," obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn't see tomorrow. ~ Doug Glanville

Furi wiped his mouth, realizing Doug was staring at him. "What?" "I asked Cel to marry me," Doug said around a wide smile. "Holy shit!" Furi barked. "Yeah, man. I fucking love her to death." Doug laughed. "I honestly don't know why I waited this long." Furi knew exactly how Doug felt. Love was thick all around him. "I guess from the smile on your face that she said yes." "Of ~ A.E. Via

I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans. ~ Doug E. Fresh

Ψ Some say that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to Him. Works for me. Ψ ~ Doug Dillon

It's our flaws who make us who we are. ~ Doug Stanhope

In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.' ~ Doug Benson

Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success. ~ Mindy Kaling

Crashing from love is worse than crashing from pot, or LSD, or going cold turkey from heroin. Nobody should be allowed to do love. Love should be illegal. ~ Doug Shear

Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious! ~ Doug Stanhope

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive. ~ Doug Stanhope

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit. ~ Doug Stanhope

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~ Doug Rader

I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory. ~ Doug Stanhope

Time served does not guarantee maturity. ~ Doug Glanville

Townsend's wife Rita, a striking, razor-sharp Latina lawyer, who seemed to be the brains in the household, lost her cool in front of the cameras at a rally in Charleston and called C2C a concha de tu madre before she could be hustled off the stage. Her press officer translated the phrase as "the seashell your mother likes," but the several million South Americans in the U.S. knew it to have a slightly different connotation. ~ Doug Magee

That and many other cases since then, most of them concerning autoimune diseases, have drilled into my head that patient relief is NOT THE BOTTOM LINE IN standardized medicine - following protocol is. That kind of reasoning works when the protocol in question achieves a cure for a given
disease. For diabetes, clearing it hasn't. ~ Doug Kaufman

On January 9, 1863, nine days after Lincoln ended slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, ~ Doug Most

I'm not trying to recruit anyone. I think minds can be changed, but I also think they don't have to be changed. If someone doesn't want to smoke pot and doesn't think it should be legal, then that's fine, but the numbers that do are going to continue to grow to the point where change will eventually occur. ~ Doug Benson

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals. ~ Doug Ose

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling. ~ Doug Larson

Since 2000, no important technology innovation in the United States has been scaled up to create millions of manufacturing, marketing, and engineering jobs here, as personal computers and related industries did. While selling online and social networking are clearly transformational movements that have created entrepreneurial opportunities, fewer than fifty thousand traditional jobs - those with full-time hours, benefits, and health insurance - have been created. ~ Doug Menuez

I'll drop you back to test driver so fast it will make your bra snap. ~ Doug Solter

Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think you're her type. She's into the Goth and vampire scene. You're too mainstream for her." I was sipping a glass of water and nearly choked on it.
"That," said Peter, as soon as Doug was gone, "is what we call irony."
"How is that possible?" exclaimed Cody. "I am a vampire. I should be exactly what she wants."
"Yeah, but you don't look like one," I said. If Gabrielle had been a Trekkie, he might have had a shot tonight. ~ Richelle Mead

Not saying everything you think isn't about choosing to allow your body language to do the talking instead of speaking your thoughts aloud. It's about refraining from both! Keeping quiet and still. ~ Doug Fields

Choose your Path "Be very careful . . . to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." - Joshua 22:5 ~ Doug Marsh

I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my 'Pinhead Mood Music'. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The Holy Sepulchre), it opens more like a piece of modern orchestral music, and although it it moves toward Vivaldi's familiar harmonies, there is always the threat that it will fall back into dissonance. The piece progresses in an exquisite agony, poised on a knife edge between beauty and disfigurement, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Perfect. ~ Doug Bradley

I know there's a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it. ~ Doug Benson

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.' ~ Doug Harvey

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of. ~ Doug Casey

Excuse me, sir." One the young officers put his hand up to stop them. "Are you Furious Barkley?"

"Maybe. Maybe not. Is there a problem, officers?" Doug stepped in front of Furi.

"Damn straight there's a problem." Syn stepped inside the door, yanking his dark aviator glasses off his face. The scowl he wore told Furi this was not a pleasant coincidence. "Thanks guys, you can go."

Furi stood with his mouth hanging open while Syn dismissed the officers.

"Seriously, Starsky. You gonna track my boy down every time he leaves the house?" Doug said angrily, still blocking Furi.

"He's not your boy. And what I do regarding Furi is none of your goddamn business." Syn's clenched jaw made his words sound like an evil hiss. He shouldered past Doug and got directly in Furi's face. "When I've been calling him for over six hours and he hasn't picked up or returned any of my calls, I'll send a fuckin' SWAT team to find him if I want to."

Syn spun and pointed his finger in Doug's face, "That's my say, not yours." Syn's voice was rising with his growing temper, and all eyes were on them.

"Okay, let's get out of here." Furi pushed at both men, urging them out the door.

As soon as they were out in the brisk fall air, Syn rounded on Furi, pushing their chest together. "Where have you been, Furious? I've been going crazy trying to check on you, and you're sitting here casually eating pancakes," Syn growled.
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