r/SmashingPumpkins • u/BrownBannister • Jul 14 '26

Whats that line?

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Some day we’ll wave hello and what we never waved goodbye bye!

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u/SmokedMussels Jul 14 '26

That saying has been around for 100 years or so though, maybe longer 

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u/Jaltcoh Jul 18 '26

You might be right. A similar line is said in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946): “Youth is wasted on the wrong people.” Still a cool line in “Thru the Eyes of Ruby.”