#alive

Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive. ↗

— Paul Reubens

#ago #alive #defensive #find #getting

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #awakening #confusing #consciousness #disorienting

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#back #curiosity #his #kept #life

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ↗

— Philip Roth

#boy #die #jewish #man #parents

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. ↗

— Philip Roth

#just #life #period #short #short period

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive? ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#considered #including #know #make #nobody

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive. ↗

— Bob Saget

#comedians #enough #enough people #everyone #how

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#amount #certain #creative #good #make

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

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. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know