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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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