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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living."

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Russell Edson Poet, Writer
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"If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."

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Owen Wilson Actor
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"It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it."

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