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 Dubusmy belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.
Andre DubusThere are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feelโitโs that postmodern thingโitโs more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human beingโs experience.
Andre DubusWhat is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
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