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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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