We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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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.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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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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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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