Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

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.

We have never enjoyed a piece of the great American dream.

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."