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> [What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/what-the-nostalgic-past-and-the-imaginary-future-seem-to-share-in/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

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## More by Charles D'Ambrosio

> [What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/what-the-nostalgic-past-and-the-imaginary-future-seem-to-share-in/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-have-lots-of-fiction-in-the-drawer-but-the-essays-i-mostly-kick-out/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading those papers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-m-kind-of-a-creature-of-the-alt-weekly-universe-my-real-education/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/even-with-an-assignment-i-take-over-i-find-a-freedom-and-make-the/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/nowadays-i-imagine-people-find-freer-and-more-accepting-venues-in/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [“...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/the-boy-saw-faces-disinigrate-before-his-eyes-faces-that-fell-to/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-like-the-desperado-aspect-of-essays-the-free-lance-that-mercenary/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/my-presence-isn-t-simply-about-character-i-m-present-in-every-part/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [“She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is? Hate, I said. Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/she-sighed-ignatius-do-you-know-what-the-opposite-of-love-is-hate-i/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [“It's hard to kill yourself by taking Tylenol. You die from liver failure, which takes a long time...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/it-s-hard-to-kill-yourself-by-taking-tylenol-you-die-from-liver/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/too-much-me-is-annoying-under-any-circumstance-but-too-much-me-in-an/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-suppose-i-like-certainty-as-much-as-anyone-else-but-i-also-feel/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/the-poet-amanda-nadelberg-puts-it-nicely-in-an-interview-when-she/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/our-nostalgic-dreams-of-perfection-thrive-just-as-dangerously-in-the/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

> [I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/i-m-not-a-very-savvy-operator-it-s-not-who-i-am-it-s-not-what-i-do/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

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