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John Dufresne

"We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we canâ€™t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When weâ€™re distressed and go to therapy, our therapistâ€™s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesnâ€™t come with plots; itâ€™s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we canâ€™t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense."

Source : John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.277, W. W. Norton & Company

John Dufresne

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“Life has taught me that you canâ€™t control someoneâ€™s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesnâ€™t mean theyâ€™ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesnâ€™t mean theyâ€™ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.”

Source : FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Jun 23, 2015
“Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.”
“No one who had any sense has ever liked school.”
“Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.”
“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
“To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.”
“You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.”
“Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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