We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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 can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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