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• By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

  Peter York

  Real, Class, Hair

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• With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Mirth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

  Thomas Harris

  Sex, Eye, Want

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.291, Penguin

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• Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

  Ian Bannen

  Death, Men, Dying

  "Fictional character: Jackie O'Shea". "Waking Ned", 1998.

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• I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

  Terence Rattigan

  Death, Insults You, Trying

  Terence Rattigan (1977). “The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: The sleeping prince. Separate tables. Variation on a theme. Ross. Heart to heart”

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• To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

  Spike Milligan

  Singing, Want, Firsts

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• We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Children, Eye, Blood

  Remark to Palestinians upon signing of the IsraelPalestine Declaration, Washington, D.C., 13 Sept. 1993

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• But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

  Ezra Koenig

  Enemy, Periods, Invited

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• The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

  Mary Roach

  Ordinary, Cadavers, Decay

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

  Anita Baker

  Home, Used, Vocalist

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• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Memories, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Music, Piano, Looks

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• Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Impact

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• Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Black History, Today, Segregation

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

  Jessica Mitford

  Industry

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• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Simple, Worry, Waiting

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• It's my policy not to review funerals.

  A.M. Homes

  Reviews, Policy

  A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.54, Granta Books

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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• Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Views

  Song: Acid Rain, Album: Acid Rap, 2013

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• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Bells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

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• Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Prayer, Children

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

  James Keller

  Time, Art, Work

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• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

  Horace

  Grief, Littles

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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