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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?

Zelda Fitzgerald

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Believe Myself Worth
I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
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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Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
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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Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Advertisement Dreams Finding Growth Promise
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Ideas Ourselves People True
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Behavior Herself Refusal
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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Away Happiness Quite Smart
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Borrow Future Life Work Worry
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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Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Comfortable Excitement Happiness World

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