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Category: Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I don’t want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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

Zelda Fitzgerald

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

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.

change-of-scene, travel

Zelda Fitzgerald

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

Zelda Fitzgerald

The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama’s continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semiconscious banquet table, her insistence on the magic and glamor of life when she was already feeling its pulse like the throbbing of an amputated leg, had something of the same sinister quality.

denial, macabre, war

Zelda Fitzgerald

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.

being-in-love, falling-in-love, love

Zelda Fitzgerald

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.

moon, south, southern-usa

Zelda Fitzgerald

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

dignified, extravagance, help, legitimate

Zelda Fitzgerald

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

chaos, imagination, relationships