James Cagney/retirement and Death 1961%e2%80%931986

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    To be ‘conscious’ means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    You dirty, double-crossing rat.
    —James Cagney (1899–1986)

    He who comes into Assemblies only to gratifie his Curiosity, and not to make a Figure, enjoys the Pleasures of Retirement in a[n] ...exquisite Degree.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    and so this tree—
    Oh, that such our death may be!—
    Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
    To live in happier form again:
    From which, beneath Heaven’s fairest star,
    The artist wrought this loved guitar;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)