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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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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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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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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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