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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Believe Myself Worth
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Bone Light Ray Remember Shadow Yourself
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 FITZGERALD

Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Kind People Share Taste Weather
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Experience Teaching Yourself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dreams Forever Moon Play Radio Summer
Death is the only real elegance.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Elegant One Liner Reality
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise

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