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Zelda Fitzgerald

Save Me the Waltz

  • Andy Oregonhas quoted3 years ago
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    “Those girls,” people said, “think they can do anything and get away with it.”
  • Leonard Laohas quoted4 months ago
    hew the battlements of life from compromise
  • Natalia Benedichas quoted4 months ago
    The savor of her first kiss was gone with the hope of its repetition.
  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    “Alabama,” said David sententiously, “that’s impractical. You’ve become nothing but an aesthetic theory—a chemistry formula for the decorative.”

    “There’s nothing we can do with two dollars anyway,” she protested in a logical tone.

    “I s’pose not——”
  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    New York was more full of reflections than of itself—the only concrete things in town were the abstractions
  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    There they are, the Knights, dancing together,” they said, “isn’t it nice? There they go.”
    “Listen, Alabama, you’re not keeping time,” David was saying.
    “David, for God’s sake will you try to keep off of my feet?”
    “I never could waltz anyway.”

    跳华尔兹的小细节被写的突然有了生机

  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    People were tired of the proletariat—everybody was famous. All the other people who weren’t well known had been killed in the war; there wasn’t much interest in private lives.

    提到了一战

  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    Butterflies opened and shut along the roads like the flash of white in a camera lens.
  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    His hands across her shoulders fit like the warm hollows
  • xuchang xuchanghas quoted3 years ago
    were of the slightest help
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