Andre Dubus III

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.

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These are some quotes by American author Andre Dubus III Writer, who lived between August 11, 1936 and February 24, 1999.

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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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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.

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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

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