Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

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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.

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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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Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

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Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

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Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

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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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A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.

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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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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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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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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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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure... another chance in life.

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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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You took what you wanted from life, if you could get it, and you did without the rest.

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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

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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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Every time I try to talk to the cook, she scuttles down the cellar stairs and adds a hundred francs to the bill.

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It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one's self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

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Connie thinks monogamy is what the parlor chairs were made of in the Nineties.

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The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

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But I warn you... I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

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Ernest, don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?

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