Quotes of Andre Dubus - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing even writing badly had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing. ”

- Andre Dubus III

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus

“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”

- Andre Dubus
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