"Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable."

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

Charles D'Ambrosio

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“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

Source : "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.
“Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...”
“But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.”
“The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.”

Source : 1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).
“A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com
“Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.”

Source : "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.
“I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!”
“Being joyful is a choice.”

Source : "Jonathan Jackson: On Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Genuine Prayer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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