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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Robert Orben / Writer
Bigs
Desks
Desk
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham / Photographer
Artist
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Students
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I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
John Pople / Chemist
Calculus
Discarded
Cover
Textbook
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Ratios
Reason
Writing
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Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck / Column Author
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Fruit
Kiwi
Over It
Dead
Hairy
Threw
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Donald Knuth / Computer Scientist
Machines
Paper
Style
Writing
Beside
Enter
Pencil
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Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
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Disappear
Fingers
Impossible
Photograph
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Release
Sensible
Trying
Photographs
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