"It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand."

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Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media

Andre Dubus

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“[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.”
“In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.”
“Ghost?â€ St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. â€œChrist. Youâ€™re not serious, are you?â€ "Iâ€™m a Gypsy,â€ Cam replied matter-of-factly. â€œOf course I believe in ghosts.â€ â€œOnly half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.â€ â€œThe other half is Irish,â€ Cam said a touch apologetically. â€œChrist,â€ St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.”
“It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.”
“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
“For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.”
“I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.”
“I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.”

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