"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive."
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"Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die."
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"Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them."
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"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."
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"You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others."
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"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
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"Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else."
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"The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble."
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"The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown."
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"The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong."
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"I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive."
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"[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched."
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"Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive."
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"You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."
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"Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene."
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"There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery."
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"If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is."
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"I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment."
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"All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive."
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"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."
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