"It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French."

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Source : "The Ill-Defined Plot" by John Jeremiah Sullivan, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2014.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#Facts Quotes #Curious Quotes

“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.”
“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
“Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.”
“One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.”
“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.”
“In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”

Source : "Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.

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