“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
Though, in this case... maybe.
Still, interesting anecdote.
Anecdotes are historical or much more rarely fanciful but never fictional exemplary stories. The fictional variety may be called a vignette.
One of my favourite books of quotations features a number of same on the subject of women and/or marriage by Oscar Wilde.
The editor includes this gem of a note: "Oscar Wilde cannot be taken as an authority on the subject of women."
To which I can only say: consider the source and weight accordingly.