We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNobody 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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