“My gratitude to you is boundless and if you think I have done any good here, imagine how it looked from this end as you donated $2 million to the National Association of Free Clinics and my dying father watched from his hospital bed, transcendentally comforted that his struggles were inspiring such overwhelming good for people he and I and you would never meet, but would always know. This may be the only television program wherein the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice-versa.”
Keith Olbermann
more infosource: goodbye to his audience in the last broadcast of Countdown, MSNBC, January 21, 2011.
category: cable news, goodbye, gratitude, television
medium: cable television news
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“Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”
Antonio Porchia
more infosource: Voices: Aphorisms, selected and translated by W. S. Merwin (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 22.
category: absence, breakup, farewell, goodbye, grief
medium: aphorism
“When are you sailing so I can meet you at the dock with champagne?”
Robert Lowell
more infosource: letter to Elizabeth Bishop, dated April 24, 1952, in Words in Air (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 137.
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category: bon voyage, champagne, dock, farewell, friendship, goodbye, ocean, romance, sailing, sea
medium: letter
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