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 FITZGERALDLooking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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