Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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.
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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