Pa said, "Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words."
Connie led Rose of Sharon to the graveside, she reluctant. "You got to," Connie said. "It ain't decent not to. It'll jus' be a little.
The firelight fell on the grouped people, showing their faces and their eyes, dwindling on their dark clothes.All the hats were off now. The light danced, jerking over the people.
Casy said, It'll be a short one." He bowed his head, and the others followed his lead. Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter. Heard a fella tell a poem one time, an' he says 'All that lives is holy.' Got to thinkin', an' purty soon it means more than the words says. An' I woundn' pray for a ol' fella that's dead. He's awright. He got a job to do, but it's all laid out for'im an' there's on'y one way to do it. But us, we got a job to do, an' they's a thousan' ways, an' we don' know which one to take. An' if I was to pray, it'd be for the folks that don' know which way to turn. Grampa here, he got the easy straight. An' now cover 'im up and let'im get to his work." He raised his head.

John Steinbeck

Mots clés life last-words death burial funeral



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I see that you have made three spelling mistakes

Thomas de Mahay

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Don't be afraid!

Charles XII

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Why didn't they ask the Evans?

Agatha Christie

Mots clés why murder last-words mystery agatha-christie



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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

Charles Dickens

Mots clés inspirational art natural last-words fulfillment rules writer



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Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Steve Jobs

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A great leap in the dark

Thomas Hobbes

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Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'étais un peu amoureuse de vous.

Victor Hugo

Mots clés last-words les-misérables eponine marius pontmercy thénardier éponine



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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

John Green

Mots clés last-words death chocolate



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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green

Mots clés last-words death remember



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