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  1. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    It's the first time I've seen early morning in a terribly long time- The sun all yellow and red, like a huge luminous peach hanging on a black shadow-tree-just visible thru the mist-
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  2. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    Zelda was a creature who overflowed with activity, radiant with desire to take from life every chance her charm, youth, and intelligence provided so abundantly.
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  3. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    I was in love with a whirlwind and I must spin a net big enough to catch it,
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  4. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.
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  5. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.
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  6. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    The men came from every imaginable economic and social level of American life, "men who were better dressed in their uniforms than ever before in their lives," as Zelda wrote later, "and men from Princeton and Yale who smelled of Russian Leather and seemed very used to being alive…." The larger world that Zelda dreamed of was at her doorstep and accessible.
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  7. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...
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  8. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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  9. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
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  10. Nancy Milford _ Zelda

    In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.
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