Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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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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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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