#live

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#alive #did #done #fits #i

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up. ↗

— Kevin Powers

#death #fighting #giving-up #death

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#far #i #life #lived #made

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#fascination #kills #lives #me #personal

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#i #incidentally #live #love #to love

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#clubs #country #does #live #rule

Read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#order #read

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves. ↗

— Arthur C. McGill

#life #death