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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
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Painter
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Montgomery
Alabama
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[The Sun Also Rises is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.
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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.
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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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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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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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
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