I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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 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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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 don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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