Andre Dubus Quotes

• Creo que cuanto más profundizas en las preguntas, más profundas o interesantes se vuelven. Y creo que ese es el trabajo del arte.

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  Art, Jobs, Writing

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• Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

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  Fear, Arms, Ghost

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Dancing After Hours: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

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• No es difícil vivir un día, si puedes vivir un momento. Lo que crea la desesperación es la imaginación, que pretende que hay un futuro, e insiste en predecir millones de momentos, miles de días, y te agota de tal manera que no puedes vivir el momento presente.

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  Hands, Imagination, Live In The Moment

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

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Loss

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Una de las cosas que aprendí escribiendo memorias es que no puedes arrastrar al lector a través de todo. Cada vida humana vale 20 memorias.

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  Writing, Life Is, Drag

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• We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

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  Choices, Normal, Authenticity

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• 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.

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  Writing, Years, Desire

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• I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

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  Guerra, Escritura, Hombres

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

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• 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.

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  Real, Escribir, Años

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• I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Life Is

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• As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

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  Philosophy, Writing, Character

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• I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

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  Wife, Crash, Curious

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• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

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• Como joven víctima de acoso escolar y, más tarde, autor vengativo de actos violentos, conozco las dos caras de esta experiencia, y me he esforzado mucho por ser lo más honesto posible al escribir este artículo, por no idealizarme ni a mí mismo ni a mis acciones pasadas ni a mis cobardes inacciones.

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  Bullying, Writing, Past

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• Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

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  Romance, Want, Dies

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

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  Writing, Opposites, Grace

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• What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

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  Escribir, pensar, descubrir

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• There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being’s experience.

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  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

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  Escritura, Creatividad, Pensamiento

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• I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

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  Essence, Looks, Way

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• 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.

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  Dream, Writing, Black And White

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• Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.

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  Writing, Silence, Trying

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

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  Writing, Creativity, Eye

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• What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

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  Art, Effort, Littles

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.16, Vintage

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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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