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Brief author info: Andre Dubus (1936-1999) American short-story writer and essayist.

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Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

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I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

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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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I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

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For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

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Motivational Quote

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Motivational Quote

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

- Paulo Coelho

Wisdom Quote

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

- Carlos Castaneda

Funny Quote

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

- Yogi Berra

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