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- Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound…
- Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
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- All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that… — Christian Bale
- If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan
- It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
- To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Lord Chesterfield
- Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn
- During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I… — Ross Douthat