February 2011
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Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window.
Calvin:...
– Bill Watterson, There’s Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
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…say a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
– Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
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A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in...
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re...
– George Axelrod, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film)
Based on the novella by Truman Capote
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Rather the flight of the bird passing and leaving no trace
Than creatures...
– Fernando Pessoa
[With warm thanks to Billyjane who sent this beautiful poem to me.]
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too...
– Stephen King, “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” From Different Seasons
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
– Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel” from Monday or Tuesday
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
– Franz Kafka
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...
– Henry Miller, Sexus
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She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little...
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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