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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.