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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.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth
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 FITZGERALD

Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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End Hang Loose Man
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
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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Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
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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Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Ideas Ourselves People True
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
Death is the only real elegance.
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Death Elegant One Liner Reality
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?
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Body Experience Finding Mindset Nurture Solace
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Advertisement Dreams Finding Growth Promise
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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Borrow Future Life Work Worry
I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dreams Forever Moon Play Radio Summer

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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