We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
ZELDA FITZGERALDBeing in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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