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.
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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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