"Beliefâ€¦is the insistence that the truth is what one would â€˜liefâ€™ or (will or) wish to beâ€¦Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith letâ€™s goâ€¦faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deceptio"

-- Alan Watts

#Self Quotes #Mind Quotes #Wish Quotes

“One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.”
“Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.”
“I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.”
“I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.”
“I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.”
“People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.”
“Play against the Game, not your opponent.”

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