Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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 quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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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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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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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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