Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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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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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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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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