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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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Zelda Fitzgerald
Age: 47 †
Born: 1900
Born: July 24
Died: 1948
Died: March 10
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isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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