Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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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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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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