It won’t be what we had, but it will be what we have.

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— R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, on the future of making music without his bandmates. On the surface it sounds like one of those “it is what it is”-style quotes. A Yogism, if you will. But on closer inspection, I think it beautifully and succinctly sums up the end of any relationship, working or otherwise, and might be one of my new favorite quotes ever.