Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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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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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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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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Everybody gives you belief for the asking,' she said to David, 'and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief - just not letting you down, that's all. Its so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered

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We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood — or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

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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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