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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Father said conflict develops the character
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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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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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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