133 Quotes About Essays
- Author T.S Eliot
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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
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- Author Judith L. Harper
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Life is too short to be mad for too long.
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- Author Federico Mangahas
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For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.
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- Author T.S Eliot
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Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they are that which we know.
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- Author Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)
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We should be simiarly wary of acceping common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote
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- Author Tyellas
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Orcs were far from invulnerable; they were subject to disease, they could die, they were not immortal, and they "needed food and rest". From The Unnatural History of Tolkiens Orcs
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- Author Michel de Montaigne
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I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.
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- Author Sara Levine
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The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.
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- Author Charles M. Blow
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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