Anecdotes Quotes

“Enough anecdotes make a pattern.”

“When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.”

“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.”

“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.”

“...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.”

“The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.”

“About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.”