"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."

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"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."

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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."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

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"I've been dying to play."

Johnny Kelly, American Musician

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"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Spike Milligan, Irish Comedian

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."

Christopher Plummer, Canadian Actor

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"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."

Kate Smith, American Musician

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"A closed mind is a dying mind."

Edna Ferber, American Novelist

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"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"I am dying, Egypt, dying."

Marc Antony, Roman Politician

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"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."

Robert Lansing, American Politician

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