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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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