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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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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 is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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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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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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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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