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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.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel
I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Earth Eat Myself Result View
One illusion is as good as another.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Goodness Illusion Oneself
Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Close Deep Extraordinary Mystery Philosophy Reality True
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Age People Sexual Significant
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Feeling Happiness Myself Responsible Way Young
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Bone Light Ray Remember Shadow Yourself
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man
People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Finding Information People Reading Trouble
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Ideas Ourselves People True
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Love Myself Willing
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dangerous Funny Passionate People
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
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?
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Body Experience Finding Mindset Nurture Solace
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 FITZGERALD

Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

I Love You Life Myself Yourself
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Catch Deep Material Ourselves

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