"Art to me is an anecdote of the……" — Mark Rothko

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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have… — Carl Sagan
• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray
• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied… — Bill Cosby
• History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image… — Thomas Kuhn
• During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware… — Ross Douthat
• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, — Mark Rothko
• An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their… — Gilbert Burnet
• You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What… — John L'Heureux
• 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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