"The sky lay over the city like a……" — Zelda Fitzgerald
"The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome."
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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61 Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if…
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were…
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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously…
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Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about…
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Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's…
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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a…
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Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
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