I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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