I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWomen sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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