Andre Dubus III Quotes
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I am tone deaf.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
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Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
