"I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices."
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"Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word."
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"Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive."
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"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future."
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"In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it."
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"I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets."
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"If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive."
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"Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive."
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"In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done."
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"The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive."
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"some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight."
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"If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny."
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"The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad."
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"How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?"
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"Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive."
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"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
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"Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living."
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"There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace."
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"Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed."
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"Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive."
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