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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.”

“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.”

“The important thing is to be happy.”

“This is the way we were. In our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.”

“Three years have gone by. Yes, the sun’s come up over a thousand times... Some babies that weren’t even born before have begun talking regular sentences already; and a number of people who thought they were right young and spry have noticed that they can’t bound up a flight of stairs like they used to without their heart fluttering a little. All that can happen in a thousand days.”