Franz Kafka
Writer
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
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Cages
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)"
Lawrence Anthony
Author and Conservationist
"The only good cage is an empty cage."
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"It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage."
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"What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."
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"Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in."
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"Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages."
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"You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly."
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"Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode."
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"How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?"
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"Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control."
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"Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo."
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"It's better to die free than live life in a cage."
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"A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage."
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"Sometimes nostalgia is a cage."
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"The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage."
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"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."
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"I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage."
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"If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage."
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"Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages."
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"You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter."
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"While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away."
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"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while."
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