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• All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Artist, Beckett, Indifferent

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• A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

  Vance Havner

  Brave, Storm, Height

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Creative, Bird, Trying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.

  Hannibal

  Thinking, Laughing, Heaven

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• Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

  Lil Wayne

  Want, Beast, You Want Me

  "Song: "No Love" (Album:"Recovery")". 2010.

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• I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Guy, Fighter, Count On Me

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

  Paolo Giordano

  Confidence, Feelings, Special

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• One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Responsibility

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• You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Never Trust, Traps, Never Trust Anyone

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• Friends don’t build cages for each other.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.112, Delacorte Press

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• I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

  Mindy Kaling

  Love, Funny Motivational, Age

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2009

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• If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

  Alan Watts

  Love, Song, Bird

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• To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Forgiving, Folly

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Road to Grace”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

  Jerry Garcia

  Technology, Want, Firsts

  Source: medium.com

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• Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lions

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• Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Fate, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.358, Macmillan

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• The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Beast, Dangerous, Be Careful

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1996). “Class warfare: interviews with David Barsamian”, Common Courage Pr

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• Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

  Amy Harmon

  Doors, Color, Different

  FaceBook post by Amy Harmon from Sep 22, 2014

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• The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, Body, Left

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• The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Dark, Light, People

  ""Depardieu"". Book by Marianne Gray, October 21, 1991.

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• Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

  Dean Young

  Bird

  Dean Young (2011). “Fall Higher”, p.86, Copper Canyon Press

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• The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Sound, Ribs

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

  Rumi

  Bird, Spirit, Fly Away

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.214, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Envy, Noble

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

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