We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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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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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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