Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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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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