P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fidel Castro
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
Taya Kyle
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
Laura Marling
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
Rachel Cusk
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Patricia Polacco
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
Frances Conroy
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
Karin Slaughter
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
Mary Stewart
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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
Mario Draghi
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The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.
Rachel Morrison
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
Lenny Abrahamson
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Routine is the death to heroism.
P. G. Wodehouse