When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn’t make them laughable; it’s something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what’s most personal about them they could only come up with what’s most public.

– Terrence Malick

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