"You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the……" — John L'Heureux
"You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?"
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John L'Heureux
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12 Quotes by John L'Heureux
John L'Heureux has 12 quotes on this site.
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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got…
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Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
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Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.
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Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
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Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
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Uninvited criticism is insult.
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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never…
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A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth.…
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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that…
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Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
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More Anecdote Quotes
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied…
— Bill Cosby
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware…
— Ross Douthat
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
— Mark Rothko
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their…
— Gilbert Burnet
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
— Alice Munro
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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially…
— Maurice Denis
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