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Charles D'Ambrosio
"I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose." --
Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
Charles D'Ambrosio
#World Quotes
#Essays Quotes
“Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.”
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
“Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that”
“Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.”
“Keep practicing. Never let someone tell you you're too small or too slow.”
“Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.”
“Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.”
