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culture better you ca
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connoisseurship um
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connoisseurship
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of everything that that that that people
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like this were interested in
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you know of everything that made the
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culture better you ca
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you know a very discerning audience a
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very you know
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an audience with a high level of
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connoisseurship um
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is as important to the culture as
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An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
The effect of Aids
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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artists were lost
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people talk about like
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why would you know why was new york city
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that aids had
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on the culture in the sense i mean
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people don't talk about anymore but when
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people did talk about
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it uh they talked about like what
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artists were lost
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audience that was lost you know when
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people talk about like
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An audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to the culture as artists
but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
What was it like growing up next to the room of a dead sister you never met?
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
She said, “Just a bit of elder advice: The weight of secrets and deaths continue to grow as you age. So plan more quiet time for yourself. You’ll need it.” She continued: “About deaths: find people who get it and talk to them. We can’t get through it without each other, and folks outside our world don’t have a freaking clue what we’re going
... See moreLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart’s longing.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Accepting death with love means we embrace the reality of the unexpected, of experiences over which we have no control.