Famous quotes containing the words american, short and/or stories:
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Burial of the Dead, “First Anthem,” (1662)
“Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesn’t stop,
with no new land to make for and no new stories to swap.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)