“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”
Variant: We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Source: The Green Mile (1996)
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“So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"”
Interviewed by Cathay Che, The Advocate (8 May 2001)
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“Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?”
From De Profundis
Context: But we of the rich plain of sweet airs and pure,
Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?
These lines just before the final four do not appear in most published versions, but were included in the version published in The Book of Poetry (1927) edited by Edwin Markham. It is not known whether they existed in the second newspaper publication, of which no copies are known to survive, or derived from manuscript variants.
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