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— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee"The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces."
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Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.
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The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.
— Robert Scholes
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