"I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'"
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"I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music."
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"It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive."
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"It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not."
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"I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive."
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"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead."
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"There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen."
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"I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling."
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"Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive."
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"It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account."
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"It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago."
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"I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself."
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"My greatest joy is just to be alive!"
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"It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive."
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"Sometimes you need lies to stay alive."
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"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
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"How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
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"If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist."
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