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Andre Dubus Quotes

1936–1999 United States

Andre Jules Dubus II (August 11 1936 – February 24 1999) was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist and autobiographer.

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Very early, I understood that women were required to be other than what they were.

Broken Vessels (1991)

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

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Selected Stories (1995)

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.

Broken Vessels (1991)

...and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Broken Vessels (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andre Dubus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.