Quotes Zelda Fitzgerald

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In 1939, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald stirred up one last fiasco-a disastrous and booze-fueled trip to Cuba. They had been separated. Zelda lived in Asheville's Highland Hospital, where she was.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” - Zelda Fitzgerald.
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ZELDA FITZGERALD Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900-March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was a novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s-dubbed by her husband 'the first American Flapper'.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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. Its so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

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

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.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

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

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

The trouble with emergencies is,' she said, 'that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

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.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Ernest, don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?

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.

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.

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

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes On Love

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.

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

Every time I try to talk to the cook, she scuttles down the cellar stairs and adds a hundred francs to the bill.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

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