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.
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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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 measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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