Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAnd only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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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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