"My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad."
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
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"Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?"
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise."
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"The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever."
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
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"Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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"Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own."
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"I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."
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"Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day."
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"Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day."
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"Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is."
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"Life is a sport...drink it up."
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"I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth."
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"Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
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"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
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"If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success."
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