I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDExperience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAll 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDShe quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWomen sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLife has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALDFather said conflict develops the character
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLove is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPeople are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy 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?
ZELDA FITZGERALD