Best Essays Quotes
199 Essays quotes by 175 unique authors
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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a…
— Tony Hillerman
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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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In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in…
— Lewis Black
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All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
— Geoff Dyer
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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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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
— Samuel Johnson
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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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The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find…
— Richard Rodriguez
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From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a…
— Stuart Dybek
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Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Unknown Author
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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
— Karl Shapiro
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Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making…
— Deborah Harkness
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial…
— Unknown Author
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Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing…
— Leonard Maltin
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay…
— Carl Andre
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John…
— Galen
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I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting
— Tina Brown
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To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily,…
— Tom Bissell
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
— Adrian Mitchell
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able…
— Adam Parfrey
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when…
— John Steakley
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