Anecdotes Quote by Irving Howe

“Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.”

Irving Howe

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Anecdotes Drapes Form Fragile Incidents Mere Quantity Short Sometimes Spine Suggestions Writing

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One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the…

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Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

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I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

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The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate,…

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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The…

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“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links.…

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“There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It must lead…

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Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

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Good readers make much out of little.

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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

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The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

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