Zelda Fitzgerald Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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'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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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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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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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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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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