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• It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

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  Moments, Hard, Ifs

  Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk a writer must try to be free of prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and hatred; strive to be a better human being than the writer normally is, and to do this through concentration on a single word, and then another, and another. This is splendid work, as worthy and demanding as any, and the will and resilience to do it are good for the writer's soul.

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  Book, Writing, Hatred

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• I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

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  Short Love, Believe, Stories

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.81, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Writing

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• 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.

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  Writing, Years, Care

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• I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

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  Stars, Crazy, Distance

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• I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

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  Writing, Fog, Years

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• 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.

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  Short Love, Pain, Believe

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.81, Open Road Media

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

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  Vanity, Cowardice, Source

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. 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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  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

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  Discipline, Matter, Talent

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• Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.

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  Dream, Teaching, Writing

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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• 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.

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  College, Men, Wings

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• Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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  Father, Expecting

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• 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.

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  Pain, Grief, Soul

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• For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

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  Twenties, Tonight, Useless

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

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  Believe, Book, Writing

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

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  Mom, Dad, Reading

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• Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

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  Book, Attention, Be Careful

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.

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  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

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  Believe, Earth, Too Much

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

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  Art, Believe, Who Cares

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

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  Daughter, Morning, New York

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

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  Children, Father, Divorce

  Andre Dubus III (2011). “Townie: A Memoir”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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