Essay Quotes

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton
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
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In his essay, â€˜Perpetual Peace,â€™ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by… — Henry A. Kissinger
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
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Marie Pitt
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter
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
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
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
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
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story. — Amy Hempel
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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