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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!"

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Alice James Writer
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"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so."

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Marguerite Duras Writer, Filmmaker
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"He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming."

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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high."

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