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Andre Dubus Quotes

Andre Dubus quotes

American Writer August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999

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Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief. Andre Dubus
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. Andre Dubus
What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it? Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus quote: "He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if..."
He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking. Andre Dubus
The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability she assumed upon entering the building. Often she felt that her smiles, and her feigned interest in people's anecdotes about commuting and complaints about colds, were an implicit and draining part of her job. A decade later she would know that spending time with people and being unable either to speak from her heart or to listen with it was an imperceptible bleeding of her... Andre Dubus
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus
A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. Andre Dubus
There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do something else. You join the world…You move out of your isolation and become universal. Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus quote: "What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to..."
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus quote: "Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your..."
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself. Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus quote: "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through..."
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus quote: "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how..."
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. Andre Dubus

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