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That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
— Andre Dubus
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
— Andre Dubus
Different people carry different toolboxes.
— Andre Dubus III
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
— Andre Dubus III
She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.
— Andre Dubus III
Pop," I said, "isn't this shit vaulable?""Not to me, son. — Andre Dubus III
You've got to kill your darlings.
— Andre Dubus III
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
— Andre Dubus III
It's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you
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Regret was Fear's big sister,
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We don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got.
— Andre Dubus
I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.
— Andre Dubus
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don't write at all.
— Andre Dubus III
For our excess we lost everything.
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Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.
— Andre Dubus
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
— Andre Dubus
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
— Andre Dubus
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.
— Andre Dubus III
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.
— Andre Dubus
I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.
— Andre Dubus III
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
— Andre Dubus III
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
— Andre Dubus III