Another way in which I identify with Scarlett O"Hara is her tenacity. I too am ambitious to a fault, and I always get what I want- often through hard work and perseverance, sometimes in less meretricious ways. ... In her classic epitome at the end, Scarlett sees that it is Rhett she's loved all along, and as Melanie lays dying, that she really did love Melanie, that her whole life was misguided. This is how I feel much of my life is. ... Like Scarlett, I realized this quite far into the process. ...

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My mother told me that before dying, she intoned in mouth. ... She was laying down on the bed as usual. ... I had not said anything, yet, but I felt that she already knew what I was going to say. Laying on the bad, looking at me she said, "Please take care of yourself." I was going to leave her to go to America in minutes and I knew that it could be the last time I saw her. ... I wished I could take her hands forever or at least could touch her hands when I return. ...

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The play was designed for me to get the ball and score an easy lay-up. ... He drew up a play for us to get a quick steal and an easy lay-up to win the game. ... I dribbled the ball back down the court and went up for the lay-up. ... It was no ordinary silence, it was as if someone had died. ... I did it! ...

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I remember going there when I was little and playing in the sand. ... I enjoy laying in the sun with my mom or riding four wheelers through the creek with my friends. ... A quad dies, we run out of gas, it's always something. ... Blake was shining his flashlight inside one of the broken windows and suddenly the battery died. ... The next day I went back up there with my brother and the key was laying right at the foot of the gate. ...

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If I am given the chance (I wonder, if it ever happen) to be born again, I will not lay down any unreasonable conditions unlike the man in the Chinese story which may embarrass my Creator. ... After I have finished my education, I should like to become a business executive. ... When I have made a few millions I will charter a plane and go round the world. ... When I come back from my travels around the world, I go for a medical checkup. ... I die without a word of protest, because I had enough of life. ...

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I sometimes think there's two sides to the commandment; and that we may say ?... As they say, old habits die hard, but at least he realized what suffering really was. ... Up until chapter 24, With the Dying, Mary is not a very religious person. ... And when the words were said, John Barton lay a corpse in Mr. ... We are all human, and we all die alone. ...

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Looking back on his life, the boy was I, and what happened, I will never forget. ... I didn't know what was happening or where I was, but at that point I found out and I knew where I was then. ... I started to lay on the couch and my mother thought I was asleep until she checked me. It was at this point I realized something wasn't right at all, I was in a hospital room when I awoke, I had fluids running into me from a small plastic tube connected to a large plastic back filled with a clear liquid. ... IN this experience I found I could've died. ...

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Towards the end of the book it looses it's importance, and therefore stops looking important, "the conch lay at Ralph's feet, fragile and white". ... I"ll show him the one thing he hasn't got". ... When Piggy and the conch die, so do all traces of humanity on the island. ...

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If anyone does, they die, and it won't take much to disturb Mickey and Mallory, or get them a bit too excited. ... From the moment you lay eyes on any of the first scenes in this movie, you won't be able to look anywhere else, even if you are one of those people who turn your head away from the movie-screen every time you feel there's a killing or anything else grotesque coming up. ... I don't think this movie is about good guys-bad guys. ... But despite its success, I can't shake my discomfort with the fact that, in his effort to make the film entertaining, Stone has ...

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Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed but she refused to reveal her real name but as she lay dying she decided to disclose a telegram to her father in Brooklyn. "I have but a few moments to live. ... I expected to deliver to my country but the fate would not have it so. I am content to die. ...

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Although Lennie never reaches his dream, he dies with the thought of achievement. ... And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were laying tricks on me and they were laughing at me too... I felt naked". ... Both leave Charlie heads to New York, with a last request for flower to be place on Algernon's grave, and Lennie dies, with picture of himself feeding the rabbits on his ranch. ... Lennie never had a chance to reach his dream, he died to soon. ...

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I remembered her saying she wondered if the angels of people who had died at the hospital, were playing the music. ... She said, "When I die I am going to come and play it for you. ... "My sister just died! ... There my sister lay, it looked as if she was just sleeping. ... I wished I could tell her that I would always remember her. ...

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I lay in the grass and thought about everything that we had done together. ... My closure would come when I realized that we all die and there was a reason why my friend was dead. ... But I don't regret anything about knowing him, except for the fact that I didn't tell him I love him; I told his grave that I did, but it was not the same. ... I hope that I see my friend again and can tell him how I felt about him. ... Now that my friends are dying, and I have a true sense of the real world and what it can take from you, I feel myself die a little more everyday. ...

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I thought I was going to die. ... As I lay there in bed, a policeman came into my unit and told me to look through the police report. ... I was confused. ... I guess I had lost too much blood to stay conscious. ... Sometimes when I come to think about the incident, I cant help but to think how stupid and unfortunate I was. ...

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All I could think of at that moment was how I was no longer going to see her and have her for the good and the bad moments in my life. ... I was very nervous when we were on our way to my grandma's house because I knew that I was going to see her for the last time even though she wouldn't be able to see me or talk to me. As I walked in to the house, I saw my family sitting on the couch and I could see how sad and heartbroken everyone was over the tragedy that occurred. I remember glancing over at the floor and seeing my grandmother laying there very pale and cold. ... I always remini...

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I didn't like them and I told them so and made them get out." Then he added laying a hand on the young doctor's shoulder:" But I like you. ... "I built this house for Lydia," said Cabading, "and I want her to live here even when she's married. ... I couldn't have it!" ... I would not be fair, he said, to let Leonardo, who had not...

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He would have died for those people and he almost did. ... " I was in love once before and she was all I needed. I lost her for my pride. Don't make the same mistake I made. ... They decide to fight and most of them died. ...

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"Can I help you?... If I have to, I"ll do it again because I want to be the first one to give him a hug. ... I know I have to go to sleep, but I hate going to sleep, because I know that I can't fall asleep for hours. ... I hate laying in the dark. ... Something that died that night. ...

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One day I was driving home from work and I realized I had forgotten something I was going to let my friend borrow. ... The worst memory that Barry ever had was when his had to watch his youngest brother die of disease. ... This meant that he was going to die. ... "This comforted me." says Barry, "It was the same relief we all came to accept when mom died." ... Out of all the things that have happened to him in his life, he is willing to lay his credibility on the line to help improve my life. ...

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" I now possess the throne and all its powers. ... That she'll die but her death will kill another... " I know it myself- I'm shaken, torn. ... Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? ... I killed them, I, god help me, I admit it all!...

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He can't control the power of being over other people and he lets the power go to his head. " I now possess the throne and all its powers. ... That she'll die but her death will kill another... In the end Creon realizes that his pride has lead to the destruction of his life and his kingdom. " I know it myself- I'm shaken, torn. ... Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? ... I killed them, I, god help me, I admit it all!...

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Hinton's use of imagery allows the reader to visualize Johnny as a scared, innocent child because his is constantly being hurt by his parents in his own home, so he would not dare lay a finger on anybody else. ... I mean it. ... That was the only time I can think of that I saw him without that defeated, suspicous look in his eyes." ... Johnny never wanted to murder the Soc, he simply did not want Ponyboy to die right before his very own eyes, so he did the only thing he could do to put an end to it. ... After the Soc dies, and Pony and Johnny flee, Johnny's ways and personality do no...

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I didn't think I needed to! ... She drifted off to sleep easily as I lay unable to unwind from my crazy day. ... I realized I had to call 911. ... "I, I, I don't know how to say this but mom died.... She just died in her sleep. ...

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I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"(Morrison 42). ... So when I got here, even before they let me get out of bed, I stitched her a little something from a piece of cloth Baby Suggs had. ... I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. ... 'I should have gone on back there? ...

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