Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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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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