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Brian D'Ambrosio Biography

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“Creativity is always a leap of faith. Writers sit down in front of empty pages. Painters stare before blank easels. Thespians rehearse looking toward empty stages. Creativity is experimental by nature.”

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Book:From Haikus to Hatmaking: One Year in the Life of Western Montana
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“The question of what propels artists forward remains a mystery, even to them. I’ve spoken often with James McMurtry over the years, and he tends to shrug off grand explanations. He writes songs. He travels. If he’s lucky, he said, he’ll sing something that someone feels they ought to hear. That modest perspective contains its own kind of wisdom. Songwriters rarely claim to have the answers. Instead, they keep asking questions—about love, loss, identity, and the strange business of being alive.”

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Book:Troubadour Truths: Truth, Songs, and the Long Way Home
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“Simplicity matters. Especially when it comes to the muscle memory of boxing. That is perhaps rule number one. Simplicity works. Simplicity is repetition. Repetition is function. Boil function down to one action, maybe two. Left or right. Simplicity. Simplicity is really the hardest thing.”

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Book:Rasta in the Ring: The Life of Rastafarian Boxer Livingstone Bramble
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“Needless to say, I personally don’t believe fighting should be banned. I don't understand why a relatively small segment of the hockey world feels obligated to ban extracurricular combat when it's so popular elsewhere in American sports. Additionally, the league shouldn’t be trying to ban fighting to save the enforcers from hurting themselves. Fighters realize the risks associated with what they do, and they are bound to accept these risks.”

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Book:Warriors on the Ice: Hockey's Toughest Talk
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“Her moral obligation to keep our hearts entwined. Her preeminent love, smelling like life, in a good way, familiar like an ancient woodcut, a private postcard in the midst of a crowd, in an old T-shirt to soak up the memories, committed to recycling life. repairing the nucleus.”

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Book:Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
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“Old and cold. High rates of suicide and prescription drug abuse. Look at the inbred faces at the grocery stores and coffee shops, the exercise-deficient kids, the routinized state workers, the sun-deprived adults and isolated third and fourth generation sad cases who've never experienced a meal outside of Lewis and Clark County. Make no mistake; Helena, Montana is old and cold and the rigid, sick antithesis of living.”

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Book:Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
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“To those who advocate that America follow the Chinese model of a totalitarian lockdown because of a virus or flu strain, must remember that the Maoist principle of Chinese rule is founded on total control of the populace, with the loss of freedom on every front: of speech, movement, work, information. Americans shouldn't be drinking the green tea so unquestioningly.”

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“Inevitable pickup trucks complete with full gun racks, chainsaws, fishing poles, and big, sneering dogs in the back, line the streets and parking lots. Meek murmur of autumn skies, Ford and Chevy outfits to roll through town, as people get ready for a long, gray, foggy winter, big, four-wheel-drive pickups with snow blades attached, the box loaded down, with a high stack of cordwood topped by a huge elk carcass, to go disheartened in the midst of wretched weather, cold, raw, continually snowing.”

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“She lives in a town of sorry history, indifferent to ethical perspectives, apathetic to female attributes, cargo and trunk liners, spilled oil in the garage, telephone poles shaped like liquor bottles, sustaining burly weather, cardiac distressing cold, tobacco and mortality, lying face-up on the bar’s concrete floor, no one can waste a life faster than a Montana redneck.”

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Book:Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
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“Life, perhaps less a document than an impression, conveyed through partial glances, stream-of-consciousness juxtapositions, unpredictable rhythms, a collage of sound, a conscientious diarist, a career of blackmail and scandal culminated in murder, a blind man with a will of iron and a nervous system of gossamer.”

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Book:Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
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