People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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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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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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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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