"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience."
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"When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life."
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"That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people."
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"Art is what we do when we're truly alive."
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"I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive."
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"If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it."
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"When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive."
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"Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free."
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"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
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"If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health."
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"My religion is to be alive from LOVE."
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"We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive."
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"Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood."
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"We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive."
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"It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go."
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"Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive."
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"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."
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"No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves."
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"A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive."
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