“A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.”
"Robert Louis Stevenson," Century Magazine (April 1888).
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Usher (1978) American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor
Source: From an interview with VIBE, " Caught Up http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hSYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22It+can+never+be+bad+to+have+a+foundation+as+a+man%22+usher&source=bl&ots=znEcU5UzFB&sig=nSA9TRsN-0VmlAwizQ_1eicZRP0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ow81T8e2JOet0QWamd2xAg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22It%20can%20never%20be%20bad%20to%20have%20a%20foundation%20as%20a%20man%22%20usher&f=false" (July 2008), p. 65-71.
“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.”
Michael Marshall Smith (1965) British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 21
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Words
The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 12