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“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir; instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .”
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“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.”
Lenny Bruce quotes (Controversial American stand-up Comedian and Satirist of the 1950s and 60s. 1925-1966)
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“MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society. By misdemeanors he essays to climb Into the aristocracy of crime. O, woe was him! --with manner chill and grand "Captains of industry" refused his hand, "Kings of finance" denied him recognition And "railway magnates" jeered his low condition. He robbed a bank to make himself respected. They still rebuffed him, for he was detected. --S.V. Hanipur”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays”
Karl Kraus quotes (Austrian Journalist, Critic, Playwright and Poet, 1874-1936)

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“The famed Essays on Man in this agree, that so things are, and therefore so should be: the proof inverted would be stronger far; so they should be, and therefore so they are”
Alexander Pope quotes (English Poet, 1688-1744)

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“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”
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“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”
David McCord quotes (American Poet and Writer, 1897-1997)
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“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.”
Dylan Thomas quotes (Welsh Poet, short-story Writer and Playwright, 1914-1953)

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“She saw Death of a Salesman from the balcony. From the evidence of her essay, it was close enough.”
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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, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.”
Mao Tse-Tung quotes (Chinese stateman, the key figure in China in the 20th century, 1893-1976)
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“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
Virginia Woolf quotes (English Modernist Writer. She is best known for her feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" and the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". Committed suicide at age 59. 1882-1941)
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“Of seeming arms to make a short essay, / Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.”
John Dryden quotes (British Poet, Dramatist and Critic of Literacy, 1631-1700)

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“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
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“I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of "Munich" may exceed the original error of 1938.”
Novalis quotes (Early German Romantic Poet and Novelist who greatly influenced later Romantic thought, 1772-1801)

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