Anecdotes Quotes

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Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen… — Chad Hurley
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes — Isaac Barrow
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you… — Betty Comden
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. — Benjamin Disraeli
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' — Joyce Carol Oates
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid… — Steven Pinker
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. — Robert Quillen
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline,… — Al Yankovic
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting… — Elliot Perlman
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,… — Marilynne Robinson
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have. — Charles Baxter
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
Good anecdote--bad reality. — Carrie Fisher
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote.… — Dorothy Parker
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a… — Dorothy Parker
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje

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