Conrad Aiken Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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Live fast, die young.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.
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I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.
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I tend to leave people alone that I admire.
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at the hospital, Janice speaking to Dr Olman in Harry's presence in the ward 'What's wrong with his heart, exactly?' Janice asks.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
