Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALDExperience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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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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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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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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