Father said conflict develops the character
ZELDA FITZGERALDThere’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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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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