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 FITZGERALDWomen 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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