#me

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. ↗

— Claire Wolfe

#awkward #bastards #early #late #shoot

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? ↗

— Richard Powers

#chunk #completely #go #going #immerse

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #democratic #ever

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#american #american people #bay #despicable #does

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. ↗

— James Carville

#become #becomes #being #being famous #profession

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special. ↗

— Nick Carter

#because #friends #get #i #just

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#i #make #men #more #sensitive

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative