She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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 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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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