I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOne illusion is as good as another.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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 suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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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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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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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD