Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
ZELDA FITZGERALDBeing 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALDThey 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMemories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy 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?
ZELDA FITZGERALDNothing could have survived our life.
ZELDA FITZGERALDBy 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDPeople are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLooking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
ZELDA FITZGERALD