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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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