Status Updates From Our Town

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“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

“Does anyone ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”

“It goes so fast. We don’t have time to look at one another.”

“People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”

“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it.”