“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Fallaci interview (1973)
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former prime minister of Israel 1898–1978Related quotes
“I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong”
Paul Scholes (1974) English footballer
During an interview in the latter years of his career http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YOti0icEbw
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
Barry Lopez (1945) American writer
“I stayed alive therefore I am.”
Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
“For Beatrice--I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.”
Daniel Handler book The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window (2000)
“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Motto"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
“I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.”
Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Context: I am still here, although I don’t know why; accidentally, I guess, as I was born; I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.
Source: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 4 “Temple of Light” (p. 96).