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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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