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"If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places."
"Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion."
"Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things."
"Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral."
"Life's too short for a funeral."
"There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse."
"My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars."
"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."
"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."
"He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides"
"What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps."
"When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner."
"Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are."
"...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart."
"When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive."
"My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so."
"The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite."
"God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled."
"The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail."
"Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn."
