"My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form."

-- Raymond Carver

#Responsibility Quotes #Stories Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“Study: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 22, 2013
“You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.”
“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.”
“I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.â€ ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates”
“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”
“An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.”
“Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.”

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