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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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 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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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
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'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'
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He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
