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Alive Quote by Dan Chaon

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“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

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“In the basement of Sydney's new house is a little room that is about the size and shape of a coffin.”

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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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