I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOh, 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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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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