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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Am Dark Darkness Descent Even Feel Grief Ground Guy Honest Joy Kind Listen Me More Mozart Noses Really Requiem Sort Stuff Think Though Upbeat Why Without Writers You I Feel

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I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Cold Cycling Days Even Five Four Months Occasional Off-Season Oldest Out Regime Run Running Saturday Son Sunday Warm Weather Week Work Work Out

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I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Always Anyone Became Brutal Frankly Got Kid Makeup Natural Sensitive Sweet Think Violent

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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.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About Art Artist Believe Care Cares Family John Larger Than Truly Who Who Cares I Care

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One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Accidental Because Been Brought Dad Father Fortune Gives Good Good Fortune Had Joy Joys Life Lovely Me Readers Some Surprisingly Tell Work Writing You

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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Bartender Come Corner Crazy Distance Europe Glamour Gone Had Imagined Know Last Look Lot Mansions Movie Movie Stars Never Psyche Red Red Carpets Room Stars Stuff Them Trips Way Wonder Would Years You

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Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About Any Cry Deeply Feel Found Happens Insensitive Like Means Mediocre Most Pretty Second Stupid Time Vulnerable Well Writing Wrong I Feel

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Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Children Dating Dinner Divorce Early Every Every Sunday Father Had He Hear Him His Later Left Meant Money Picking Say Somewhere Still Sunday Up Us Would Years

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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Cook Dinner Frozen Garlic Had Imagination Like Making Might Mother Onion Resilience She Spam Take Taste Them Vegetables Week Would

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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.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Another Beautiful Being Books Cold Compassionate Deep Experience Experimentation Falling Feel Human Language Leave Me More Out Postmodern Some Than Thing Where I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 11th, 1936

Died: February 24th, 1999

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