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199 Essays quotes by 175 unique authors
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I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough…
— Jen Lancaster
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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
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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
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What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was…
— Chinua Achebe
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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
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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
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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
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If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
— Unknown Author
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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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We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer…
— Thomas Kuhn
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link…
— Naomi Wolf
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
— Paul Theroux
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
— Dani Shapiro
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes…
— Corey Taylor
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Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
— Jill Lepore
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Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were…
— Jill Lepore
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At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways…
— Sebastian Coe
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I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the…
— Siri Hustvedt
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
— Edmund Waller
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers…
— Sharon Olds
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To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an…
— James Meade
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Brandon McCaw did a 5,000 page essay for procedures for enforcing ethical standards and handling potential violations have to be developed. He got a 150%…
— Brandon McCaw
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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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