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"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
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"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."
"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."
"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."
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"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
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