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 | | Lamott's father once advised her panic-stricken ten-year-old brother who had a report on birds due the next day and he had not begun it, though he had had the assignment three months. |
| | I didn't find the rest of her advice all that useful, but that may be because I don't write fiction, and some of her chapters have to do with characters and plot. |
| | According to the American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition [another superb book, just published] this phrase means "to grow wealthy by taking advantage of one's position..." Numbers of birds, mainly ducks, grebes and waterfowl, but also some perching birds and birds of prey, do indeed feather their nests with down they pluck from their own breast. |
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