"I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated."

-- John D'Agata

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“Why do dying people never shed tears?”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.”

Source : Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com
“My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.”
“By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.”
“Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.”
“Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.”

Source : "David Frum’s Why Romney Lost eBook Is Spot-On" by Dan McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.
“I think Donald Trump now thinks it`s time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump first voiced his exasperation with Sessions, that Sessions made it clear to Trump that if Trump wanted his resignation, he would offer it. It seems to me now Trump is sending a pretty clear signal that what he wants is Jeff Sessions to resign, and it`s also pretty clear to me he`s now at war with everyone in the world of justice and law enforcement in the administration.”
“Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.”

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