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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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Andre Dubus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 11
Died: 1999
Died: February 24
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Andre Jules Dubus II
Always
Burn
Love
Curious
Loved
Wife
Around
Wells
Well
Marriages
Hard
Crash

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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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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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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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Fear is a ghost embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
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It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
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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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Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.
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