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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
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Montgomery
Alabama
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre
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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 tomorrow.
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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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Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
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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.
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
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A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
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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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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 being escorted out by the house detectives.
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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
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isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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