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    You're a freaking pschopath," I said, but he only chuckled. "I don't expect you to understand, little bird," He turned toward me fully, fingering his blade and smiling. "I expect you only to sing. Sing for me, sing for Kanin, and make it a glorious song

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    A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.

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    Your world is as big as you make it. I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

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    A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

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    A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

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    A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

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    A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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    A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

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    A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

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    A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

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    A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

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    A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

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    A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

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    A bird, music and food -desert island items

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    A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

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    A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

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    A bird is joy incarnate.

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    A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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    absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

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    A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

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    A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush

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    A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

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    Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

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    Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

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    A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.

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    A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

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    About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

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    A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

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    A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.

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    A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

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    A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

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    A forest bird never wants a cage.

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    A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

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    A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

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    A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

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    A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

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    Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

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    A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

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    A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

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    A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

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    A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

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    A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

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    A gun will give you the body, not the bird

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    Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

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    A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

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    A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

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    All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

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    All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

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    All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

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    Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other.