She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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There’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.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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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 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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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 FITZGERALD