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Save Me the Waltz

Name: Save Me the Waltz
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald

Save Me the Waltz is the only novel by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Published in 1932, it is a semi-autobiographical account of her life and marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”

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“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

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“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

Variant: But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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“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.”

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“A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether.”

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“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”

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“Father said conflict develops the character”

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