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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi
Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And when you convince… — Bruce Friedrich
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of… — Dennis Lindley
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the… — Charles M. Schulz
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the… — Gaston Bachelard
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and… — Jeremy Brett
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in… — Tobias Wolff
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond… — Unknown Author
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand… — Constance Hale
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the… — Robert James Waller
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a… — Wei Wu Wei
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief… — Charlie Chaplin
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… — Albert Camus
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and… — Kurt Vonnegut
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,… — Isaac Newton
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out… — Margaret Bourke-White
The point of the essay is to change things. — Edward Tufte
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid… — Tony Kushner
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the… — Henry David Thoreau

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