Out-takes IX

27th June 2006 with 1 Comment

‘The Porsche and the peacock tail are exactly the same thing. They are both in their different ways, expensive, costly. They’re handicaps; and they have to be or they wouldn’t be reliable indicators of the fitness of a potential mate.
‘The tail and the Porsche are both useless in terms of survival, but their uselessness is [...]

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About Writing:

. . . it seemed that I had to be a writer as well as a reader. I bought a school notebook and tried to write - did write, pages that started off authoritatively and then went dry, so that I had to tear them out and twist them up in hard punishment and put them in the garbage can. I did this over and over again until I had only the notebook cover left. Then I bought another notebook and started the whole process once more. The same cycle - excitement and despair, excitement and despair. Alice Munro

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