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"It's my life and my death."

Gary Gilmore, American Criminal

Death, Life

"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

Death,

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

Death,

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

Death, Guests, May

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death,

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death, Heart, Concern, Will

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Death, Grief, Emotion, Release

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"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."

Job

"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

End

"Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character."

Character

"We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong."

Work

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

Eye

"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."

Murder

"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Actor

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

Being

"There is no more final end than death."

Death