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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

  Quintus Ennius

  Honor, Tears, Pay

  As quoted in "Tusculanae Disputationes" by Cicero, Book I, chapter XV, section 34,

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• Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Remembrance, Fame, Wit

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• I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Years, Two

  "Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sibling, Generations, Might

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• At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

  Jill Scott

  Jobs, Aunt, House

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• I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Father, Remember, Metaphor

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.445, Penguin

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  John Towner Williams

  Needs, May

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• I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Thinking, Littles, Should

  Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com

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• I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

  Karin Fossum

  Blow, Impact, Years

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• When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

  Steve Martin

  Kings, Thinking, Nuts

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• Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Clothes, Ties, People

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• I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

  Osman Baydemir

  People, Apologizing, Prison

  "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Army, My Family

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• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Sunset

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Squad

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

  Peter Hedges

  Mother, Running, People

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

  Herman Melville

  Transactions, Jokes

  Herman Melville (2016). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

  William Carlos Williams

  Artist, World, Should

  'Tract'

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• On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

  Gustave Courbet

  Meditation, Criticism, Portraits

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• Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

  Lester Bangs

  Laughing, Life Is Precious, Realizing

  "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 222), 1988.

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Water, Competition

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