All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
ZELDA FITZGERALDBeing 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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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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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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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 get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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