Dan Chaon Quotes

Freedom is Letting Go.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

If you want to be free be free

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

I'm spreading my wings at last.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

I've been a free man.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.