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 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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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