Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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