Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy
pursuit-of-happiness past ideas
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.
keys admitting facts
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.
tragedy pay alive
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
doubt individual
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
unique stories
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
agony would-be moments
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 ...