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7 quotesFaith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
Anecdotes
Jonathan Swift
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Anecdotes
Italo Calvino
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Life is too short for a long story.
Anecdotes
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anecdotes
Laurence Sterne
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Anecdotes
Lord Chesterfield
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Anecdotes
Benjamin Disraeli
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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
Anecdotes
William Shakespeare
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun