February 2012
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Siren Song
Margaret Atwood
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see beached skulls the song nobody knows because anyone who had heard it is dead, and the others can’t remember. Shall I tell you the secret and if I do, will you get me out of this bird suit? I don’t enjoy it here...
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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
– William Wordsworth
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“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey...”
– Pablo Neruda, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1971
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“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Cinderella remained ever gentle and kind, for with each dawn she found new hope...”
– Cinderella (1950)
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