Accidents Quote by Michael Portillo

“American society is uncomfortable with the idea that some people’s lives are difficult past the point of sanity and that they aren’t necessarily to…

— George Saunders

“When it happens to you it's a national tragedy— Why aren't the papers reporting this? you wonder. Only when it happens to someone else…

— David Sedaris

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

— Robert Penn Warren

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

— Clive Owen

There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and places where…

— Dan Chaon

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen…

— Harvey Pekar

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

— Diana Rigg

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on…

— Mark Helprin

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

— Edward Abbey

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

— Abe Fortas