Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDon’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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