People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter–and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July. Langston Hughes
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  1. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  2. Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

  3. Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

  4. So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

  5. Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

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