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“People love to hate the gravedigger.”

People Hate Love Hate Gravediggers

Author:Kathy Reichs

“Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.”

May Bones Skulls Burial Soho Skittles Skull And Bones Gravediggers

Book:Necropolis: London and Its Dead

Source: Necropolis: London and Its Dead

“There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.”

Stills Country Dream Moving Bits Sky Plant Spread Vegetables Rainbow Carpet Spades Rubble Gravediggers

Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

“That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."”

Knows Want Feels Writing Looks Doe Stories Body Walking Holes Shovels Gravediggers

Author:George Saunders

“My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.”

Young Written Generations Daughter Memoir Grandmother Young Women My Grandmother Lives Of Others Homage Gravediggers

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.”

Basketball Versions Gravediggers

Author:Dennis Rodman

“Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?” “No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. “Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered. “Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.”

Knows Said Home Eye Mother Night Song Half Drink Do You Know Baths Shaking Mother Night Flasks Gravediggers

Book:Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3

Source: Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3

“I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.”

Ifs Should Mean Use Care Asks Walks Secret Behinds Taken Performances Crafts Brands Discussion Modest Moonlight Rehearsal Noon Spirited Shovels Mean Spirited Gravediggers

Book:Divisadero

Source: Divisadero