Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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.
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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 love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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Being 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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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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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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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