She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIsn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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