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Win a prize! If you can identify the author of one of the quotes below, I will send you one of: Aaron Tieger's February, Michael Carr's Platinum Blonde, or my birds for example (you choose). If you can identify two, you can choose two, etc. Contest ends 11 pm my time. You can email me with your choices or you can respond in the comment box.

A)

No, the wild tulip shall outlast the prison wall
no matter what grows within.

B)

Clouds are forming but never come to what they form.

C)

What's an errand? It's hard to define, it goes on all winter afternoon.