I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOh, 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!
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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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