I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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 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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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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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.
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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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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 love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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