"She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral."

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“Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.”

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.”

“Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.”

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"Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality."

— N. K. Jemisin

Literature1972

#death

"War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to 'a war against' whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us and Them or It and reduce the ethic…"

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Literature1929–2018

#life

"Many of your actions to date and those proposed seem to violate every defining principle of this country over which you preside; intolerance of debate , marginalization of your critics, the promoting …"

— Sean Penn

Entertainment1960

#family

"However much men may honestly endeavour to limit the exercise of their discretion by definite rule, there must always be room for idiosyncracy; and idiosyncracy, as the word expresses, varies with the…"

— John Coleridge

Science1878–1951

#writing