Locked Room Murders

Famous quotes containing the words locked room, locked, room and/or murders:

    However, there is a locked room up there
    with an iron door that can’t be opened.
    It has all your bad dreams in it.
    It is hell.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    She’s me. She represents everything I feel, everything I want to be. I’m so locked into her that what she says is unimportant.
    Diane Valleta, White American suburbanite. As quoted in the New York Times, p. A13 (July 29, 1992)

    I am trembling:
    I am suddenly charged with their language, these six strings,
    Suddenly made to see they can declare
    Nothing but harmony, and may not move
    Without a happy stirring of the air
    That builds within this room a second room....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams (1735–1826)