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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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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, 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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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