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 FITZGERALDI 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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