Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus
Andre Jules Dubus IIwas an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer...
teacher class sound
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.
vanity cowardice source
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
essence way looks
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
land air campaigns
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
running son sunday
I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
tired people listening
People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.
college men wings
I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
arms ghost embrace
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
moments ifs hard
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.
dream writing black-and-white
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.
gratitude heart loss
We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.
hands imagination live-in-the-moment
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
pain grief soul
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.
discipline matter talent
Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.