Zelda Fitzgerald - Save Me the Waltz (1932)

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

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

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

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

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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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