
“You haven't lived until you've sailed”
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Miscellaneous
“You haven't lived until you've sailed”
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
“You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give. ”
“California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange.”
Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”
Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 99, “By the Military Cemetery: Missing Persons” (p. 664)
Context: “It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.”
“Soldiers live,” I muttered.
“You’re turning that into a mantra.”
“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”