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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 the mental hospital.


Weston Locher


#comedy #essays #funny #hilarious #humor

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 family, or your adoption as a child.


Weston Locher


#comedy #essay #funny #humor #death

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.


Christian Bale


#anecdotes #around #bicycle #bunch #ended

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.


Maurice Denis


#assembled #battle #before #certain #colours

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'


Joyce Carol Oates


#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

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.


Weston Locher


#comedy #essay #funny #humor #family

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.


Anita Brookner


#biography #like #many #men #rich

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.


Daniel Hannan


#anecdotes #any #book #crack #delve

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.


Anthony Holden


#anecdote #away #be true #file #hear

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.


Kazimir Malevich


#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers






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