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Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

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I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

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Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

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I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also, roughly around the time we were doing this fact-checking. And I never really understood why people think what nonfiction's job is to give them information as opposed to something else.

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Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

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The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

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An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.

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