Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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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.

Zelda Fitzgerald
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?

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

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

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

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

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

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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

Zelda Fitzgerald