The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal, every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open; this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Calvin Trillin
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"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the
events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that
it may n...
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