Missed Ones

Absence makes the heart

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence diminishes mediocre passions

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Well, the movie isn’t

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Well, the movie isn’t bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it’s shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey’s Kim Baker – changed from Barker – transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to … Read more

If people ever look

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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they’ve never cried for a fictional character, then they’ve never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they’ve never cried at a book, a movie, a piece … Read more

I think we dream

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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. Bill Watterson

Gone – flitted away,

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Gone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Can miles truly separate

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Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach