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 FITZGERALDShe quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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.
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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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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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