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I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

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I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Alteration, Doors, Grief, Parting, Separation

It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

Fall, Hatred, Parent, Secret, Waste, Water

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Although, Come, Death, Simplest, Thoughts

I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. . . . I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

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