“After school we were on our own, we had our friends, we went out on the cliffs with my dog, and we were free.”
Jane Goodall
more infosource: on how she spent time as a child, “Jane Goodall, Illustrated,” The New York Times, May 13, 2011.
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category: childhood, dog, freedom, time
medium: Interview
“You see, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do, kid…Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.”
Bill Cunningham
more infosource: “Hunting Birds of Paradise,” by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, April 5, 2011.
medium: Op-Ed
notes: Original source of the quote is the documentary Bill Cunningham New York
“There is a way of living which makes for greater airiness, space, ease, freedom. It is like an airplane’s rise above the storms. It is a way of looking at obstacles as something to overcome; of looking at what defeats us as a monster created by ourselves, within ourselves, by our fears, and therefore dissolvable and transformable.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 4 1944–1947) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 148.
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category: fear, freedom, living, obstacle, perspective, transform
medium: diary
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
Don DeLillo
more infosource: Conversations with Don DeLillo (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), p.143.
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category: freedom, identity, individuality, survival, writing
medium: letter
notes: This comes from a letter Don DeLillo wrote to Jonathan Franzen
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