Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald
Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we

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

Other quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

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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Compromise
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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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Dreams
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. – Jean De La Bruyere

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. – Johann von Goethe

DATOS LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. – Robert Dato

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. – Jean Toomer

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future. – Joel A. Barker

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. – William E. Gladstone

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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. – Nigella Lawson

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