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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Amit Kalantri

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The meaning of essay

(n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

(n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

(n.) An assay. See Assay, n.

(n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

(n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Amit Kalantri

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take ca…

Charlotte Eriksson

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure o…

Milan Kundera

New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word liberal, they also have to take back the word elite. By now you've heard the constant right-wing attacks on the elite media, and the liberal elite.…

Bill Maher

Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened.Next! Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second.Whoa! Dan said.Amy gripped his arm. You found it?No, but…

Rick Riordan

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flau…

Milan Kundera

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

Sara Niles

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

E.M. Forster

New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach intelligent design alongside the theory of ev…

Bill Maher

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The point of the essay is to change things.

Edward Tufte

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having heard God's laughter, the agélastes are convinced that the truth is obvious, that all men necessarily…

Milan Kundera

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he liv…

T.S. Eliot

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game mig…

David Foster Wallace

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T.S. Eliot