Indiscretion Quotes

“The human heart needs to burden itself, to take responsibility for its losses, otherwise it will explode.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“Never more then two, I told her once. I repeat an old joke about why martinis are like a women's breasts; one is never enough and three are too many”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“We make so many right decisions in life, but it is the wrong ones that can never be forgiven.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“Some memories burn brighter,
whether because they meant more or because they have
assumed greater importance in our minds. Holidays blur
together, snowstorms, swimming in the ocean, acts of
love, holding our parents’ hands when we are very small,
great sadnesses. But there is much we forget too. I have
forgotten so much—names, faces, brilliant conversations,
days and weeks and months, things I vowed never to for-
get, and to fill in the gaps, I conflate the past or make it up
entirely. Did that happen to me or to someone else?”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“Places and
actions that seem so real can be entirely false, based pure-
ly on impressions of a story told at the time and then
somehow subconsciously woven into the fabric of our
lives.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

“The notion that the past is more
idyllic is absurd, however. What we remember is our inno-
cence, strong limbs, physical desire. Many people are
shackled by their past and are unable to look ahead with
any degree of confidence because they not only don’t be-
lieve in the future, they don’t really believe in themselves.”
― Charles Dubow, Indiscretion