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

— Andre Dubus

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

Broken Vessels (1991)

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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