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“Perhaps we should talk about music instead, she suggested. Did anyone want to make a request for their funeral? A lot of people die, she explained, without sharing their favorite songs or poems. “And it is your funeral,” she said. “You must say what you would like. It can take enormous pressure off friends and family if they know your favorite songs.”
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that he would make it through, as long as when he woke in the morning he was looking forward to his first cup of coffee.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“To be alive and try to be a decent person, and not turn into anything big or grand, that's the hardest thing of all. You think being president is hard? Ha. Don't you see that every president becomes a millionaire after he leaves office? If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light?" [...] "People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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