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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
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
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
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
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
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
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. — Paul Theroux
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro
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
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
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore
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
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
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
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! — Edmund Waller
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
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
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
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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