I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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