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It is not the
voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
-- Italo Calvino
1923-1985, Cuban Writer,
Essayist, Journalist
To have
frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of
imagination.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
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
Twenty or
thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure
adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and
suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of
our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes
that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and
are always told in a standardized way, in the same words.
But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to
do with our experience of those two years in the army and
what it has made of us.
-- Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright,
President
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Life is too
short for a long story.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society
Figure, Letter Writer
Your tale,
sir, would cure deafness.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
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
The history of
a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
-- Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author
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