Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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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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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
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“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
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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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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.”
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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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“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”
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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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“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.”
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“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”
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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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“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”
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“The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.”
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“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
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“Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.”
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“A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.”
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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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“We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”
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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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“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”
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“Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.”
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“Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.”
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“Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.”
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“Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...”
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