We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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 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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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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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?
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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