Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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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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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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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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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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