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 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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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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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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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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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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