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You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work. Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.
— Dwayne • Little Miss Sunshine
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker rejects a life organised around repeated judgments of worth, comparing school, college and work to beauty contests. Flying becomes the example of a desire that need not depend on one institution’s approval. The repeated profanity drives a defiant claim for pursuing what matters personally.
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