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“I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin to describe the person that she really is. You know, I had come to the project with the idea that she was, you know, just F. Scott Fitzgerald's crazy, disruptive wife.”

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“If only. Were there sadder words than these?”

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“Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.”

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