#alive

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

— Philip Roth

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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

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#alive #always #am #ask #brings

I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there. ↗

— Hannah Simone

#allowed #also #come #first #first time

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else. ↗

— Stevie Smith

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#although #becoming #formulating #healthy #keep

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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