#essay

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! ↗

— Edmund Waller

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#below #essay #heaven #hope #know

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. ↗

— James Wolcott

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#high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

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

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#curtain #draw #essay #good #must