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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
Speeches
Source: The Cost of Living
“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)
“I didn't know Elvis was alive until he was dead.”
As quoted in "Interview: Elaine Dundy, celebrated author of the seminal book, Elvis & Gladys: Genesis of The King, talks to EIN" (2004) http://www.elvisinfonet.com/dundy1.html
Context: I didn't know Elvis was alive until he was dead. But how many stories are like mine? Until his death August 16, 1977, it was possible to get through a day without hearing his name. Of course I remember all the early outrage he caused but believe me it was easy not to see any of his films. It doesn't mean that music has not always dominated my heart and mind. During the years barren of Elvis I did have my record player on constantly but it was playing folk, blues, and jazz. It was playing Al Jolson, Maurice Chevalier, Billie Holiday, Ethel Merman, and Noel Coward. The human voice raised in song has always been important to me so I include Miles Davis whose trumpet is such an important human voice. Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.
Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos
“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”
”Beast,” p. 72
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
