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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!

Zelda Fitzgerald

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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Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Believe Myself Worth
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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Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
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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Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
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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Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Responsible Way Young
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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Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
One illusion is as good as another.
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Goodness Illusion Oneself
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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Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
Father said conflict develops the character
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Character Conflict Development Father
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Live Love Myself Willing
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Live Memories Oneself Sharp
They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel
We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Catch Deep Material Ourselves

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