Dodo Quotes

12 quotes from 12 authors

The dodo often stands for missed chances, and these 12 reflections, each from a different thinker, unpack that symbolism. It’s a tidy set that still manages to spark thoughts about loss and legacy.

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Dodo ugly, so Dodo must die.

Genesis

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“Don't you own a dodo?”

Jasper Fforde

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I would love to meet a dodo.

Annie Lennox

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Aaja dodo hate kar la

Rahul

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Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Joan Fontaine

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That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one

Rachel Maddow

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“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”

Thomas Pynchon

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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was…

Will Cuppy

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“His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body,…

Bruno Schulz

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“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr