Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting

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

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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

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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

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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. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. – Howard Hughes

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Better bend than break. – Scottish Proverb

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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? – Senator Jesse Helms

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