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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
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.
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.