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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway."

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Kami Garcia Author
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"I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence."

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J. Robbins Author
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"It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]"

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Ovid Poet
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"Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?"

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Ovid Poet
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"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."

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