She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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