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“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”

Soul Turns Father Cities Wife Sadness Baby Empty Heavy Bottles Dropping Peasants Reservoirs Vodka Cupboards Strangling

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.”

Light Sadness Fields Baby Cowboy My Baby

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.”

Knows Feels Shows Young Joy Sides Interest Greater Sadness Television Baby Reader Illness Brilliant Horrible Television Shows

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You think you need me, little firecracker?” The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my thighs together to stop the tremor in me. “Baby, the way you need me can only barely cover half of the way I need you.” The unexpected sadness in his voice yanks my gaze back to his.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Together Voice Half Sadness Baby Presses Unexpected Need You Thighs I Need You Firecracker

Author:Katy Evans

“Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.”

World Looks Left Hurt Behinds Saws Four Sadness Baby Months Spots Left Behind Spinning Baffled New Look Gail

Book:Winter's Bone

Source: Winter's Bone

“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.”

Heaven Hell Sadness Sweet Baby Arms My Baby Sweet Baby

Author:Waylon Jennings