She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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