“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”
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“Sadly, I part from you;
Like a clam torn from its shell,
I go, and autumn too.”
Source: Narrow Road to the Interior

“It's so hard to understand why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam.”
When You're Young (1979)

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“I am happy with my Bangladesh.”
Replying to a question on whether he contemplated the Indian state of West Bengal joining his country and creating a "Greater Bangladesh". He was speaking to reporters at a press conference in London in January, 1972 after his release from prision in Pakistan. http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2009/08/02/tribute.htm
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