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“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”

Giving Important Purpose Dies Born Our Lives Conditions Definitions Refuse Significant Realms Cowardice Adrift

Author:Joseph Epstein

“Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.”

Kind Stories Seems Dies Wonderful Generations Refuse Vampire Length Short Story Our Generation Tenacious

Author:Neil Gaiman

“...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.”

Thinking Should Would Be Dies Dying Bed Refuse Generous Feds Delicate Portions Pie Delicate Life

Book:Cross Creek Cookery

Source: Cross Creek Cookery

“I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.”

Thinking Dies Havens Died Refuse Make Sense Peculiar

Author:Judy Garland

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Dies Existence Conditions Human Nature Objects Refuse Historic

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.”

Ifs Men Soul Age Dies Found Chance Poverty Talent Genius Extraordinary Refuse Yield Woe Oblivion Firmness Woe Unto

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.”

People Want Reality Happens Dies Inspiring Refuse Naked Guarantees

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.”

Long Dies Refuse

Book:Lilith

Source: Lilith