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Christmas Spirit Quote by Julie Delpy

"I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it"

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Delpy’s complaint isn’t really about geography; it’s a miniature manifesto against the compulsory sheen of leisure. The Bahamas stands in for a certain kind of marketed happiness: sun, ease, curated beauty, the unspoken demand that you perform gratitude in a swimsuit. By declaring “I hate islands,” she picks an absurdly broad target on purpose, swatting at the whole fantasy of escape-as-consumption. Islands are the postcard version of rest: sealed-off, simplified, designed to be “perfect.” Her rejection reads like a refusal to be managed by someone else’s idea of pleasure.

Brittany, by contrast, is anti-influencer weather. “Cold and raining” is not just preference, it’s sabotage of the vacation script. Rain gives you permission to be inward, cranky, unproductive; it lowers the stakes. When she says “nothing fancy,” she’s signaling suspicion of luxury as a moral mood: the way resorts turn relaxation into status and self-optimization. Brittany offers texture instead of gloss, a place where the environment doesn’t flatter you and doesn’t need to.

As an actress, Delpy also knows the tyranny of the image. A tropical holiday is a set you’re expected to match; a damp coastline lets you stop acting. The intent is bracingly contrarian, but the subtext is tender: she wants a break from the pressure to feel good in the “right” way. Rainy austerity becomes its own kind of indulgence - not the indulgence of abundance, but of honesty.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Delpy, Julie. (2026, January 16). I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-go-to-the-bahamas-on-holiday-i-107223/

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Delpy, Julie. "I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-go-to-the-bahamas-on-holiday-i-107223/.

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"I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-want-to-go-to-the-bahamas-on-holiday-i-107223/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a Actress from France.

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