Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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 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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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