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When things get too much for me, I put a wild-flower book and a couple of sandwiches in my pockets and go down to the South Shore of Staten Island and wander around awhile in one of the old cemeteries down there.

— Joseph Mitchell The Bottom of the Harbor (1959)

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"Mr. Hunter's Grave", in The New Yorker (September 14, 1956)

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Life is a mess, but you wouldn't want to miss it.

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I was young then, and much more courteous to older people — and to everyone else, for that matter, as I look back on it — than I should have been. Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time — time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

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