A small watering can hangs by a string beneath a fluffy cloud above a purple and peach sunset landscape.

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Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.

— Gone with the Wind • 1939

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker is exasperated: the other person is always drifting off into dreams and never showing any practical sense. It's an impatient complaint that fantasy keeps winning out over the down-to-earth realism the speaker wishes they'd bring.

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