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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Age People Sexual Significant
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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Body Experience Finding Mindset Nurture Solace
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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Absence Break Up Feeling I Love You Myself Night Thinking Yourself
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
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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Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
Women 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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Endurance Low Quiet Share Time Woman
Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Appearance Close Deep Extraordinary Mystery Philosophy Reality True
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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Finding Information People Reading Trouble
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Earth Growth Life Purpose Right Soul
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Catch Deep Material Ourselves
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
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Comfortable Excitement Happiness World
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
Nothing could have survived our life.
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Life One Liner Survive
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
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
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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Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer
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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Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
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
Death is the only real elegance.
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Death Elegant One Liner Reality
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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Away Happiness Quite Smart
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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Borrow Future Life Work Worry
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 am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Be Yourself Imagination Myself Quality Wonderful

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

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