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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.»
«She saw Death of a Salesman from the balcony. From the evidence of her essay, it was close enough.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Of seeming arms to make a short essay, / Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: essay, Essays, seeming
«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.»
Author: Lenny Bruce (Comedian, Satirist) | Keywords: coroner, essay, Essays
«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.»
«Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.»
«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 . . .»
«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.»