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You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Ian Fleming
Attribution: attributed
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Not established
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1908 to 1964; Wikidata Q82104, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82104 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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Supplied reference C; CSV row 157384; supplied attribution, independently unverified

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