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Letter "A" » anecdote
«If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.»
Author: Anthony Holden | About: Anecdotes | Keywords: anecdote, file
«Dani?s like Mogadon on two legs. She?s a 20-minute anecdote with no punchline.»
Author: Dani Behr (Actress) | Keywords: anecdote
«His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.»
«As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer»
Author: Robert Quillen | About: Age | Keywords: anecdote, anecdotes, bodies, older, shorter
«He uses anecdotes for the same reason other people climb mountains - they are there.»
Author: Walter Goodman | Keywords: anecdote, anecdotes
«As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings.»
«Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument»
«A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.»
«A collection 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»
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»

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