We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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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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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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