Andre Dubus III Quotes

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it's a mental health issue or otherwise.

Violent behavior predicts violent behavior. Obviously not every domestic abuser will become a terrorist. If somebody is prone to violence, and also has radical beliefs, and also feels very slighted, that's when you have the combination.

I'm not stupid. After you just punch me, I'm not gonna be like, 'Alright, let me do that again.'

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

I don't want to get punched all my life.