"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

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Hafez

#Alive Quotes #Glad Quotes

“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
“I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see exciting things! "Oh, this store is closing, that store is opening." And especially if it's not a chain store, then it is interesting because it is unique in some way. The small-scale familiar is also very comforting. Especially in the twenty-first century, when the world is rapidly changing and there are many risky situations, I think we need to build on and protect the comfort that we have in our neighborhoods in a way that does not exclude others.”
“You have to be selfish to be an actor.”
“Envy is a surefire party killer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fame isn't healthy for a writer.”
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.”
“Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.”
“It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Habit of Fear”, p.212, Open Road Media

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