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Category: Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

goals, inspirational, lessons-in-life, life, motivational, opportunity

Andre Dubus III

He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice–almost overexuberant–was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally ill patient who’s just been told she’s not sick anymore.

falling-in-love

Andre Dubus III

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

memoir, writing

Andre Dubus III

And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I’d lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

Andre Dubus III

And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I’d lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.