Smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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Smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

-- Anonymous

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I would hate to think I’m promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you’re taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

-- Mike Mills

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I don’t breathe when we are apart… I suffocate. I miss you Really Mom…

-- Anonymous

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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There’s no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

-- Ed Sheeran

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Ralph Ellison’s essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

-- Margo Jefferson

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

-- Anonymous

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