Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes - Page 3

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• Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Past, Ready

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• memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Memories, Should

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• ["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Bullfighting, Sun, Sun Also Rises

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Feet, Support, Compromise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Cat, Gun

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• without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love You, Night, Thinking

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Music, Dream

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

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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 somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dream, Men, Feelings

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

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• Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Spring, Errors

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• I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Wish, Despair

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Lying

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Fall, Glasses, Essence

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Moon

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• Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Hate, Heart, World

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• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Philosophical, Emotional, Oil

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Reading, People, Information

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

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• It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Self, Goal

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Years, Feelings, Want

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Women, Air, Next Day

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Views, Looks, Earth

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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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dancing, House, Kitchen

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• “Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Responsibility, People

  "Save Me the Waltz: A Novel".

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• Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Doctors, Order, Sound

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

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• Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Home, Names

  Quoted in N.Y. Tribune, 12 Apr. 1922

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• A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Science, Vacuums, Imagine

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