She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live 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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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD