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| Like many rich men, he thought in ANECDOTES; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
| A collections of ANECDOTES and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Life is too short for a long story. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. | Sir Philip Sidney | 1554-1586, British Author, Courtier |
| One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
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| Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
