Stinky
“My writer friends, and they are
legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of
them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab
dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.”
—Anne Lamott, writer, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994. URL
• Editorial Comment: So that’s why my contented dogs stink. And they never write anything worth reading.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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