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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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