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.
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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Father said conflict develops the character
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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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.
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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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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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 am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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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 play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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 don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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