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"Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning."
"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."
"To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp."
"It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home."
"The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes."
"I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it"
"When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside."
"Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations."
"They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival."
"I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing."
"Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!"
"Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive."
"I am so happy that I am alive and can walk."
"Everything we are is at every moment alive in us."
"To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone."
"The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
"Leisure without literature is death and burial alive."
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
"Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware."
"Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships."
