Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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