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Book cover for In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
Ashes Gloria Dei Architects of Loss DEATH’S CONFIDANTE Last Visit The Mountaintop AFTERWORD 1964 Acknowledgments Sources THE BASEMENT The sun will die in its sleep beneath a bridge and trailing westward like a winding-sheet listen, my ...more
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A.A. Milne
“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
A.A. Milne

Bill Dodds
“What if each of his possibilities was good? One was best but each was good and even if he chose one that wasn’t the best, God could make it the best.”
Bill Dodds, Pope Bob

David Foster Wallace
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
David Foster Wallace

Andrew Biss
“All that worrying isn’t going to alter it…it’s only going to alter you. Try and enjoy the ride. It’s almost always more interesting than where you end up.”
Andrew Biss, The End of the World

Andrew Biss
“Sometimes people simply say things to make someone else feel better. It doesn’t make it true, it just makes it appropriate.”
Andrew Biss, The End of the World

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