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 FITZGERALDDeath is the only real elegance.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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