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

Zelda Fitzgerald

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Zelda Fitzgerald
Age: 47 †
Born: 1900
Born: July 24
Died: 1948
Died: March 10
Artist
Autobiographer
Dancer
Journalist
Novelist
Painter
Poet
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Writer
Montgomery
Alabama
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre
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[The Sun Also Rises is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
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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.
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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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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 radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.
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memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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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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The trouble with emergencies is, she said, that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.
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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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Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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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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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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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, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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