I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPeople are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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I 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.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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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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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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