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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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