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 FITZGERALDAnd only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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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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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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