Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
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“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
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Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
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