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“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me prou...”
“They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.”
“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”
“Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.”
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.”
“I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.”
“The eye is always half-full.”
“She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.”
“The secret of survival is a defective imagination.”
“Your own hands falling out to catch youbefore you hit the ground. All the waysyou save yourself even when youdon't want to.Love is the way your body fights tokeep you alive.Day after day after day.”
“We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.”
“Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?”
“The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost.”
“Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.”
“Sauve qui peut. To survivewed all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,her white knife of a smile,who knows just where shes going:to steal somethingthat do...”
“Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.”
“Claudius, you're luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don't let anyone usurp it.""What do you mean, girl?""I mean that people don't kill their butts. They are cruel to them, ...”
“Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one m...”
“Glenn! Most people want to die when they get the stomach flu. You threw up everything but your spleen and you just kept going. My eyes well up and my breathing gets shallow. For Danny. Nah. For you...”
“... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or provid...”
