Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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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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