Andre Dubus III Quotes

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.

One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.

I'm not a perfect person. I never will be. I'm not going to try to be.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

I know I'm not perfect.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

No one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don't want to play this game.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.