Peter Short Stories

Famous quotes containing the words peter, short and/or stories:

    “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”
    —Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)

    “The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.”
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    “Every one of my friends had a bad day somewhere in her history she wished she could forget but couldn’t. A very bad mother day changes you forever. Those were the hardest stories to tell. . . . “I could still see the red imprint of his little bum when I changed his diaper that night. I stared at my hand, as if they were alien parts of myself . . . as if they had betrayed me. From that day on, I never hit him again.””
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)