I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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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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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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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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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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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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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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