Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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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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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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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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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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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.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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