I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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