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“Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.”

Stills Important Use Alive Tasks Important Things Sane Staying Alive

Book:The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World

Source: The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World

“While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.”

Acting Alive Activism Staying Alive

Author:Martin Sheen

“I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.”

Knows Giving Doe Problem Alive Solve Kicks Day To Day Terrific Staying Alive

Book:Bourgeois

Source: Bourgeois

“The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.”

Thinking Way Doe Art Dies Novel Alive Dying Pops Staying Alive Pop Art

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.”

Art Moving Alive Discovering Keep Moving Staying Alive

Author:Bill Watterson

“I am just working on staying alive.”

Alive Staying Staying Alive

Author:Frank Bruno

“And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.”

Ifs Wells Persons Self Desire Suffering Causes Goal Hurt Opinion Alive Example Identity Behavior Harm Obsession Well Being Unhappiness Tied Craving Staying Alive Self Identity Been Hurt

Author:Don Altman

“Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.”

Men Giving Alive Determination Decided Suicide Satisfaction Surviving Staying Alive Will To Live Assorted

Author:Brendan Behan

“I work to stay alive.”

Alive Staying Alive

Author:Bette Davis

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”

Want Courses Virtue Alive Life And Death Live By Fear Of Death Life Death Staying Alive

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.”

Long Use Struggle Alive Staying Alive

Author:Daniel Berrigan

“As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.”

Men Long Next Chance Alive Perseverance Pops Checks Staying Alive Dead Man

Book:The Fixer

Source: The Fixer

“Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.”

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“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.”

Want Writing Persons Hard Political Views Alive Threat Painful Scary Activism Over You Seductive Staying Alive Sustaining

Author:Larry Kramer

“My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.”

Jobs Alive Research Medicine Staying Alive

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“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.”

Left Chance Alive Capitalism Garden Collapse Banking Machinery Staying Alive Banking System

Author:Margaret Drabble

“I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.”

Humans Certain Order Reading Alive Arguing Fundamentalism Human Experience Staying Alive

Author:Chaim Potok

“You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.”

Alive Circumstances Occasions Thrive Pants Staying Alive

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

Ifs Children Said Responsibility Alive Staying Alive

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”

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