Marilyn Monroe Quotes
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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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.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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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!
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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I'm not sure what the American convulsion at the moment is, but I get the impression that people have moved beyond political correctness there by now. But here it lingers, although much ridiculed.
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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
