“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.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald , book Save Me the Waltz

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Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948

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