Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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