Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Real, Looks, Extraordinary

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

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  Experience, Want, Teach

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Doubt, Reason Why, Great Things

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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 great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Mother, Fun, Heart

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• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.

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• Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

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  Moon, Smell, Shadow

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Want, Way, Life Is

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• I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Wall, Hands

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

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  Boredom, Boring, Bores

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• One illusion is as good as another.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Illusion

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• I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love You, Ifs

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.548, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Needs, Crowds, Youth

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

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  Dream, Money, Promise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Ideas, People

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• The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Spiritual, Soul, Purpose

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• I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

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  Imagination, Quality, Wonderful

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  People, Passionate, Danger

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

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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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  Underwear, Emergencies, Trouble

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Time, Maturity, Years

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Song, Philosophy

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Gains, Conformity

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• Father said conflict develops the character

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Father, Character, Conflict

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