“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost
it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness
has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform,
is truly important to other people.”— American short story writer, essayist,
novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus (1936-1999), “Under the Lights,” in Broken Vessels (1991)Saturday, November 17, 2018
Quote of the Day (Andre Dubus, on Shyness at School)
“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost
it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness
has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform,
is truly important to other people.”— American short story writer, essayist,
novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus (1936-1999), “Under the Lights,” in Broken Vessels (1991)
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