Famous quotes containing the words peter, short and/or stories:
“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (18671936)
“We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called Cook. He said, I xpect we take in some water there, river so high,never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Dont paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along. It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted paddle, and we shot through without taking in a drop.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesnt stop,
with no new land to make for and no new stories to swap.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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