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  • If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

  • Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  • I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

    Thinking   Years   Trying  
    "Actress Lauren Bacall reflects on life (w/ audio)". Interview With Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. March 11, 2009.
  • What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

  • War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

    War   People   Survival  
  • There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It's our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for, and when it's time to throw in the towel.

    Life   Writing   Fighting  
    "How to kill a rock star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.
  • Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

    Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications
  • He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

  • Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

    FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jun 30, 2010
  • When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

    Jobs   Shopping   Two  
  • Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

    Song   Ties   Alive  
    Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu
  • I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

    Garden   Banking   Alive  
    The Guardian, January 2, 1993.
  • What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

    Alive   Language   States  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

    Life   Memories   Coffee  
    Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”
  • Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

    Betrayal   Cost   Hook  
    Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”
  • I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

    Lucky   Done   Alive  
  • Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

    Growing Up   Alive   Way  
  • I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

    Stars   Men   Thinking  
  • That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

    "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

    Mother   Stories   Alive  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

  • With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

    Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company
  • A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

    Dream   Hurt   Hair  
    William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.812, Modern Library
  • I am just working on staying alive.

    "'Depressed' Frank Bruno back in hospital after devastating relapse in fight against bipolar disorder" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. September 17, 2015.
  • If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite

    Alive   Reason   Spite  
  • Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

  • Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

    Winning   Thinking   Long  
  • My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

    "The Nights and Days Of Elizabeth Edwards". Interview with Monica Langley, www.wsj.com. July 21, 2007.
  • Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

    Men   Long   Important  
    George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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