#accident

We do not suffer by accident. ↗

Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-shirley #upside #l-m-montgomery

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americana #called #culture #declaration #first

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fate #such #thing

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#again #art #even #hundred #movement

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help. ↗

— Bono

#doing #help #know #really #seem

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ↗