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 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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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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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 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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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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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, 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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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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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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