“Why so negative?' says the spider to the fly. 'Be objective, forget your prejudices'. But there is no way the fly can be objective, however much she may want to be: 'to look at the web objectively, from the outside - what a dream', muses the fly, 'what an empty, deceptive dream'…. Any study of the web that does not start from the fly's entrapment in it is quite simply untrue.”

— John Holloway , book Change the World Without Taking Power

Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)

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Mexican sociologist 1947

Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter

Dracula, speaking to Harker at his castle
Dracula (1931)

“Why does she have wings?'
So she can fly.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.”

Lucio Russo (1944) Italian historian and scientist

1.3, "Science", p. 15n
The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

Charles Addams (1912–1988) Cartoonist

“A dream will fly
The moment that you open up your eyes.
A dream is just a riddle,
Ghosts from every corner of your life.”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

Original Sin
Song lyrics, Songs from the West Coast (2001)

“You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?
A stranger hither? So am I,
And (sooth to say) I wonder why
We either of us came!”

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944) Anglo-French writer

To a Dragon-fly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Variant: All sins are attempts to fill voids.

“Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Muse II http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muse-ii/
From the poems written in English

“"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
"Why do they forget the way?"
"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."”

J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan

Source: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17

“Walk into my parlour said the spider to the fly”

Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada

August 1872 debate Sarnia - to Macdonald in declining Macdonald’s offer for Mackenzie to join the Coalition Cabinet in 1865 upon George Brown’s resignation in protest - Buckingham page 324

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