Source: My Double Life
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Letter https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2743.xml to Asa Gray, 3 April 1860 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
"The Pterodactyl" in Sky Hook #16, (Winter 1952-53); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless
Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive
Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact
Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press
Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive
From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.
“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”
Zane Grey (1872–1939) American novelist
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)
Source: The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013), p. 139
Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)
(p. 149)
The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013)
“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”
O. Henry book Roads of Destiny
"Next to Reading Matter"
Roads of Destiny (1909)
Thomas Pynchon book V.
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Nine, Part II
“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.”
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
Letter (1 April 1935); published in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1988), edited by Malcolm Brown.
