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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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Andre Dubus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 11
Died: 1999
Died: February 24
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Andre Jules Dubus II
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Prose
Essence
Poetry
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Looks
Every
Evocative
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Boiled

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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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I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.
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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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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 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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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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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
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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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Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.
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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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Fear is a ghost embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
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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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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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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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I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.
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I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.
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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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I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go
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It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.
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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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