Essay Quotes
132 quotes by 113 authors
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
— Alain de Botton
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
— Alan Blinder
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We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of…
— John Dalton
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The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was…
— Gloria Estefan
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
— David Foster Wallace
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Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing…
— Israel Gelfand
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
— Thucydides
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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
— Thucydides
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.
— Marie Pitt
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Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
— Carl Bereiter
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first…
— Anatole France
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In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay,…
— Harvey Mansfield
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Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this…
— Joseph Addison
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
— Amy Hempel
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Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a…
— Morton Feldman
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