"I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are living it to the fullest” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter by Taquito on December 17, 2011.
The saying was posted by “Bill Murray” (not the American actor Bill Murray) on Twitter on September 17, 2013, on January 28, 2014, and on March 4, 2015. The saying was not coined by the actor Bill Murray or by the person who made these tweets.
Twitter
Taquito
@Jazzzzzmina
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are living it to the fullest.
3:54 PM · Dec 17, 2011·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life, or are living it to the fullest.
8:11 PM · Sep 17, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up or are living life to the fullest
3:44 PM · Jan 28, 2014·Buffer
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are just living it to the fullest.
2:11 PM · Mar 4, 2015·Buffer
Twitter
Because I’m a Guy
@CauseWereGuys
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are living it to the fullest.
10:25 AM · Aug 10, 2016·Buffer
Facebook
The Fit Gypsy
February 22, 2020 at 11:20 AM ·
“I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are living life to the fullest.” ~Bill Murray
Twitter
Milena
@Milena19K
I can’t decide if people who wear pajamas in public have given up on life or are living it to the fullest 
11:56 AM · Nov 29, 2020·Twitter for Android
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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“Online flirting is all fun and games until someone buys a plane ticket” (5/27)
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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