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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDon’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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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 love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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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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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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