21 quotes found
“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women and that was important to me back then would say, Oh, really? and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more car...”
“There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.”
“Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as too long.”
“The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someones hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your f...”
“Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the fall of man To be fair, their arguments are backed with scientific ...”
“It wasnt enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of th...”
“[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when Im carrying piping hot coffee.”
“After all, this was the place where Id had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a footballs first encounter with my groin, and above all, it was the location where I w...”
“I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just d...”
“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.”
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how t...”
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was...”
“It took me a lifetime.”
“Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friendsan anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feelsand it is thatcomes from the d...”
“A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. Th...”
“The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your ...”
“It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of t...”
“After all, this was the place where I’d had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a football’s first encounter with my groin, and above all, it was the location where I...”
“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me back then – would say, “Oh, really?” and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more...”
