Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.” — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about… — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Granny was quiet. She was either contemplating Dwayne’s story or trying to come up with one that would top his. I shivered… — Robyn Peterman Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
“Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His… — K. Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
“Is it always the same story, then? Somebody loves and somebody doesn't, or loves less, or loves someone else. Or someone is… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
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