Life+and+Death+Quotes


 * To be or not to be?**

-//The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette// announces the murder.
 * "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 P.M. Friends please accept this, the only intimation" (4). **

-Bunch Harmon describes the relationship between age and enjoying being alive.
 * "Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than strong young people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater" (128). **

-Bunch Harmon talks about lessening the burden associated with killing someone.
 * "You're thinking that I'd be the worst kind. Because I'd kid myself. If you just wanted the money for selfish reasons you'd at any rate see what you were like. But once you began to pretend about doing good with it, you'd be able to persuade yourself, perhaps, that it wouldn't very much matter killing someone" (127-128). **

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