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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a… — Charles M. Schulz
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them… — Ray Bradbury
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''… — Neil Gaiman
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught… — C.S. Lewis
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an… — David Wroblewski
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely… — Mao Zedong
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or… — Rick Riordan
Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only… — Jack Canfield
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on… — Rick Riordan
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,… — Alberto Manguel
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or… — Anne Lamott
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,… — Jodi Picoult
You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love? — Nora Roberts
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and… — Robert Bringhurst
I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I… — Matthew Quick
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact,… — Maureen Johnson
Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use… — Richelle Mead
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately,… — Mao Zedong
If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story. — Unknown Author
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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