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Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.”
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“... Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.”
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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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“Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.”
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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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“You took what you wanted from life, if you could get it, and you did without the rest.”
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“We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.”
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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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“... I don't want to live — I want to love first, and live incidentally ...”
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“Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.”
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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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“There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.”
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“I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”
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“One illusion is as good as another.”
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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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“The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow — So grow! By doing what is right.”
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“Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.”
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“[On her husband's use of material from her diary and letters:] Mr. Fitzgerald — I believe that is how he spells his name — seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”
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“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
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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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“Connie thinks monogamy is what the parlor chairs were made of in the Nineties.”
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“Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”
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“Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.”
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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 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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“Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself. ... All afternoon I've been writing soggy words in the rain and feeling dank inside, and thinking of you. When a person crosses your high forehead and slides down into the pleasant valleys about your dear mouth it's like Hannibal crossing the Alps.”
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“It seemed very sad to see you going off in your new shoes alone.”
Zelda Fitzgerald, U.S. writer, literary figure
(1900 - 1948)
Full name: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.