All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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