Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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• Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of…
• Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves,…
• It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
• Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
• Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and…
• The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and…
• Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
• The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
• Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
• We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.
• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
• 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…
• It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
• 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…
• The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a…

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