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• I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Three, Film

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Law, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.134, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Home

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• His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, Struggle, Light

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

  Kelli Williams

  Baby, World, Want

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• People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.

  Bryan Batt

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.

  Max Lucado

  Butterfly, Loss, Thinking

  Max Lucado (2011). “Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Ideas, May, Littles

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.1009, e-artnow

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• If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Loneliness, Dark

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• If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

  Amy Tan

  Lying, Thinking, Worry

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.227, Penguin

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• He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

  Eric Carle

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Two

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.24, Penguin

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• We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's in a cocoon. While I'm an improviser and enjoy discovery, the show follows a script. I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen. It's a very ­crafted, controlled environment.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Reality, Discovery

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• There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in Old Walden Pond, it soothes them, it renews them. It's a little bit like the pool in Cocoon - I suppose, any power spot is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Swim

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• You have captured my soul in a cocoon of love. My heart will be forever yours.

  Shae-Lynn Bourne

  Valentine, Heart, Forever

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• But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Order, Inspire

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• It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Fire, Wind

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

  Jane Pauley

  Funny, Office, Giving

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• The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Air, Patterns

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• My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Fall, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.57, Penguin

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• I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")

  Denise Levertov

  Dog, Children, Sleep

  Denise Levertov (1984). “Oblique Prayers: Poetry”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!

  James Patterson

  Sleep, Years, Littles

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• Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Butterfly, Dark, Thinking

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

  Barry Lyga

  Moving, Car, Forever

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Children, Adventure, Risk

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.141, Baker Books

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