Death is the only real elegance.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPeople are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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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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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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