“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”
Brother Odd
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Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 127

“You cannot live forever, but what you create and build in your lifetime can.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”
Source: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 56
“It wasn’t a death wish. It was a see-how-close-you-can-get-and-live wish.”
Source: The Ramal Extraction (2012), Chapter 12

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”

“You live you die and death not ends it.”
An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it