Alive Quotes
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
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A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
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Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
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I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
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There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
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Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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Trees are worth more alive than dead...
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Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.
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There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel … diminished. When that happens, we’ll do almost anything to feel so alive again.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
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If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
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A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
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The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
