We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLove is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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Life 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.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Women 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.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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 can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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