Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

That you are a worldly adult,’ she said. ‘You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It’s easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.

But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.

She was a marvel. She did exactly as she pleased all her life, God bless her.

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

John Berendt

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