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Norman Thayer

I'm going to Puerto Rico or Wyoming, or someplace like that.

— On Golden Pond

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker names two very different places as possible destinations, then shrugs the plan off with "or someplace like that." The vagueness gives the line an offhand, casual quality. Where they go seems to matter less than the idea of going.

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