Zelda Fitzgerald
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"Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald", born "Zelda Sayre" in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper." After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities.

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She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

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.

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.

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.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

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